2016 JAMB Admission Guidelines
JAMB Releases
New Guidelines for 2016 Admission Process.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
has released its guidelines for the 2016 admissions’ process.
The exam body said it has adopted what it
termed the point system option after an extensive one-week meeting JAMB had
with universities and other tertiary institutions’ administrators in the
country.
While explaining how the admission process
would work for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates and direct
entry students, the organisation stated that universities were going to charge
fees for screening of candidates at the end of the process for admission.
According to JAMB, “the new method uses a point
system to offer provisional admission to candidates.”
“Before a candidate can be considered for
screening, he/she must have been offered a provisional admission by JAMB. The
JAMB admission checker portal is going to be opened soon for this process, so
praying is all you can do now,” JAMB said.
The statement said, “JAMB’S provisional
admission no longer makes much sense this year, your points tally will decide
your faith. The points are evenly spread out between your O’ Level and JAMB
results to provide a level-playing field for all.
“In the first case, any candidate who submits
only one result which contains his/her relevant subjects already has 10 points.
The exam could be NECO, WASSCE, November/December WASSCE etc, but any candidate
who has two sittings only gets 2 points. So this means that candidates
with only one result are at an advantage but only just.”
The organisation added that the “next point
grades fell into the O’ Level grades where each grade would have it equivalent
point; A=6 marks, B=4 marks, C=3 marks, so the better the
candidates’ grades, the better his or her chances of securing admission this
year.
“The next point is the UTME scores where each
score range has its equivalent point which can be summarised thus, 180-200=20-23
marks, 200-250=24-33 points, 251-300=34-43, 300-400=44-60 points,” JAMB
explained.
Giving a breakdown, JAMB explained that each
category would contain five JAMB results per point added.
For example a candidate with 180-185
gets 20 points, while a candidate with 186-190 gets 21 points.
JAMB added that the point system for direct
entry would be released soon.
JAMB stated that fees would still be charged
for screening which would replace the Post UTME test.
JAMB also emphasised that catchment and
educationally less-developed state would still be used for admission into the
nation’s tertiary institutions.
JAMB said, “Merit contains 45 per cent
of the total candidates for a particular course, Catchment contains 35 per
cent and ELDS and staff lists contains the rest. Cut off marks will be released
by the institutions this year in the form of points and not marks.
“If a school declares its cut off mark for
Medicine as 90 points and JAMB grants a candidate with 250 a
provisional admission but his/her total points falls short of the 90 points,
then he/she will lose the admission. So the provisional admission is just a
means to an end, not the end in itself.”
Source
Daily
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