JAMB New Admission Modalities 8 things every Nigerian student must know

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board,
(JAMB) has issued its guideline for admission
process into Federal, State and Private
Universities in Nigeria for the 2016/2017
Academic Session.
The announcement followed a week of meeting
with universities and other tertiary institutions
in Nigeria.
Here are eight things Nigerian students must
understand from the new guidelines.
1. The new method uses a point system, which
is divided into other processes. The board said,
“before a candidate can be considered for
screening, he/she must have been given
provisional admission by JAMB.”
2. The second process, the board said, was the
point system where admission would depend on
the point tally of the candidate.
“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.”
3. Any candidate who submits only one result
which contains his/her relevant subjects already
has 10 points, the exam could be NECO, WAEC,
GCE etc, but any candidate who has 2 sittings
only gets 2 points. So this means that aspirants
with only one result are at an advantage but
only barely.
4. The next point grades fell into the O’level
grades where each grade has it’s 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.
5. The next point is the UTME scores where
each score range has its equivalent point which
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6. JAMB revealed that Universities would still
have to screen applicants at the end of the
admission process, using this point system. The
Universities would charge the applicants fees
for the screening.
7. Cut off marks will be released by schools
this year in the form of points and not marks. If
a school declares it’s 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.
8. The point system for direct entry would soon
be released by JAMB even as the screening
exercise would replace the scrapped UTME.