The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has adopted the point system option as the basis for its admission process for 2016.
The new modality was agreed upon after a weeklong meeting between JAMB, universities and other tertiary institutions’ administrators.
The admission process would work for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates and direct entry students while universities are to charge fees for screening of candidates at the end of the process for admission.
JAMB’s provisional admission must precede university’s
Before a candidate can be considered for screening, he/she must have been offered a provisional admission by JAMB.
What this means is that without a provisional admission from JAMB, a candidate is ineligible for consideration by any tertiary institution.
Admission to depend on points
JAMB’s provisional admission will now depend on the tally of points attained by a candidate.
The points are evenly spread out between a candidate’s O’ Level and JAMB results “to provide a level-playing field for all”, JAMB management says.
One sitting still has the upper hand
“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.”
In essence, a candidate who has only one sitting is likely to get more points than those who have multiple sittings.
Cutoff marks to be in form of “points” not “marks”
“Cutoff marks will be released by the institutions this year in the form of points and not marks.”
“If a school declares its cutoff 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.”
How the point system works
The candidate’s total points are gotten from the ‘O’ Level grades and JAMB scores’.
Each grade would have its equivalent point; A=6 marks, B=4 marks, C=3 marks, so the better the candidates’ O’ Level grades, the better his or her chances of securing admission.
The next point is the UTME scores where each score range has its equivalent point which can be summarised thus: a candidate with 180-185 gets 20 points; a candidate with 186-190 gets 21 points; a candidate who gets between 200-250 in JAMB has 24-33 points while that who scores 300-400 is entitled to 44-60 points.
JAMB says tertiary institutions are allowed to charge candidates fees for screening.
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rubbish in fact am not OK wt this principle of admission how many number of people will b admitted for God sake Nigeria de only want to kill all this young ones destiny think be you guys should start in fact when is the provisional admission coming out?
I believe the essence is to ensure admission is given only on merit and not on VC’s list or governors list
Your comment..when will we be expecting the admission
*My thought*
which means intelligent students who wrote O level 2x and made C’s all through will hardly gain admission because those that did “expo” and scored A’s and B’s in one sitting will have upper hand.
o mehn d process com evn hard pass now bcos evn wen jamb gives u provincial admission, it doesn’t mean u will end up being admitted. then what’s the need?
besides you will still pay money for screening
Jamb should increase the points for two sittings…it’s because it puts those with 2 sittings on much disadvantage..if checked it’s equivalent to minusing 35marks from their jamb score
Just hoping dat any strategy they implement go favor me nd ma guys…
Your comment..honestly, it’s monotonous Haven suspended & cancelled post utme,I thought they wanted to make things easier yet, it has become the worse modality so far than be 4.is this what they were commending the FG effort? now it has become load & burden to great future Nigerian students .I don’t think Nigeria will obtain the quality /standard they are looking for. let’s continue praying to our God to help us.good day Nigeria
Am Nt happy dis system of admission bcuz O level is Nt an exam. No body can proudly come dat he/she did ssce exam on thier own
I can boast of writing my ssce on my own and God’s support…
jezzz… I hope dis system of admission favour me ….they should at least make things easier not harder….cause I don’t understand.
Your comment..this method will downgrade the value of education were by the intelligent and great students will be forsaking for the dulls. Nigeria I am sorry for
Out off your relevant subject if u have 1 D7 are they going to reduce the points to 2 if C=3, B=4 and A=6 ?
God is in control of all things any way it goes it wil favour me amen. Please they shld nt look dwn on peeps with C’s.
Father save your children for they don’t know what they’re doing no more..
#confused people…
this system is somehow difficult
In fact am stil confuse about system but god shall helpqYour comment..
This will increase Exam malpractice.Every one will strive for the As, although it will encourage bright ones to work harder.
What of those candidates awaiting waec/neco results? This process poínt of admission by jamb will kill tertiary institutions in nigeria.. Jamb score is enough for admission
@ yoyo if you are help to pass your exams all are not the same mind speechcos the international body are watching and spoil the images of waec
You are right bros, they want to kill our futures.
4rm grace to grass, killing the futures of the ones, well God will c us through, amen.
Jamb should increase the points for two sittings…it’s because it puts those with 2 sittings on much disadvantage..if checked it’s equivalent to minusing 35marks from their jamb score
No just for 2 sittings
hmmmmm this policy will never please a
common Nigerian. Crz only private school students are passing there O-level …
Ahahahahahahhhhhhh this is notin bt craziness, hw cum one sitting 10points and 2sitting 2points. Plsss what ratio is dat, ratio 10:2 (80% to 20%), ahahhahhh let fear god ooooo, we dat we ar using 2sitting what will be our fate, no guarantee of securing admission, this is unfare
It’s good ooo but jamb really made this announcement very late. If dis should be the case why not say it earlier before SSCE started now admission frustration will increase for some who didn’t preper so much for their exams
All i believe is that no-matter how is comes my dreams must surely come true.but been thinking that the process will favor student not knowing that is bit harder than post utme.well there is God.