While speaking at the opening of 2016 Combined Policy Meeting on Admissions to Universities,Polytechnics and higher institutions in Nigeria yesterday,June 2nd, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu announced that the post UTME examinations organized by various Universities in Nigeria for prospective students who partake in JAMB has been scrapped off.
He said the Federal Government has confidence in the examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) as such there was no need for any other examination to be conducted by individual universities after JAMB.
“As far as I am concerned, the nation has confidence in what JAMB is doing. The universities should not be holding another examination and if the universities have any complain against JAMB let them bring it and then we address it. If JAMB is qualified enough to conduct tests and they have conducted test then there will be no need to conduct another test for students to gain admission”he said
The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of JAMB,Prof, Dibu Ojerinde also announced at the event that the cutoff mark for admission into Tertiary Institution is now 180.
“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.”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.”he said
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