FG Set JAMB Cut off Mark at 180.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced
that the cut-off mark for candidates seeking admission into tertiary
institutions for 2016/2017 Academic Session be set at a minimum UTME
score of
180.
The 180 benchmark, applies to all universities and higher
institutions in the country, including polytechnics, colleges of
education, and others.
JAMB’s Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde,
after a long debate with delegates from various institutions, told
journalists that no institution would go below the 180 cut-off set by
the board.
He said: “180 is given, no institution will go below 180 this year,
And some universities can go above it, I know University of Ife will not
go below 200 and University of Lagos will not go below 200 and also UI.
All these ones stand but 180 as bench mark for others.
“This year we have more than enough candidates, we have over 1.5
million candidates so we will get enough candidates to take in all the
schools if they are serious. Re-distribution is already ongoing, because
it is embedded in the registration procedure.”
Meanwhile the Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu, has expressed
concerns over the conduct of post-UTME in tertiary institutions.
Mr. Adamu, in his opening remark at the 2016 Combined Policy Meeting
on Admissions, said if there was confidence in JAMB’s conduct of the
University Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), there should be
no need for post-UTME.
The post-UTME is organised by various tertiary institutions to screen
candidates who applied to such institutions and who had scaled through
JAMB’s UTME.
“If the universities have problem with what JAMB is doing, they should come forward with it and we will address it.
“JAMB is one of the most active parastatals in the ministry; I expect
that policies that would be beneficial to Nigerian students should be
discussed at this meeting.
“I believe there should be no ground to lower the quality; Nov. 30 remains the closing date for 2016 admission.
“No institution should exceed its quota in admission; we will start issuing penalties to defaulting institutions.’’
However, Joe Ahaneku, the Vice-Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University,
Awka, argued that post-UTME was vital for quality assurance and
maintenance of standard.
He said that his institution arrested 183 impersonators during its 2015 post-UTME, who were able to evade JAMB’s UTME.
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