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How Universities will Conduct Admission this
Year.
After the recent scrapping of post utme
exam by the
federal government, you might be wondering
how the
universities will conduct admission this year.
Going by the reactions of candidates over
the withdrawal
of the list of candidates sent to tertiary
institutions for
admission consideration by JAMB, it is
important we clarify
a few things to avoid confusion and ensure
candidates are
properly guided.
So here are important things you should
know and keep in
mind concerning this new development;
1. The University senate now has autonomy
to select
candidates for admission. However the list
of selected
candidates must pass through JAMB for
approval and
issuance of admission letters.
2. Whether or not you were posted to a
school or not for
admission consideration earlier no longer
matters. As the
posting is no longer valid. All you need to do
now is wait
for your school of choice to announce its
screening
exercise and ensure you participate
accordingly.
3. For Tertiary institutions that have already
conducted their
admission screening exercise in line with
JAMB
stipulations, such screening still remains
valid. Candidates
that participated in such screening should
wait for the
release of the admission list(s) by their
respective
institutions.
4. The withdrawal of the JAMB
Consideration List does not
mean that post-UTME is now valid. The ban
on Post-UTME
remains valid. Tertiary institutions must
abide to the
screening modalities as earlier announced by
JAMB.
5. Candidates should note that the offer of
provisional
admissionby their schools of choice is
subject to
validation by the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board
(JAMB).
The Joint Admission And Matriculation
Board held a
meeting at the B.O Ukeje Auditorium, Nation
Commission
for colleges of Education, Central Business
District Abuja
on Tuesday 28th, 29th and 30th to map out
admission
screening modalities for Colleges of
education,
polytechnics and Universities.
The meeting was chaired by the permanent
secretary
ministry of education, Dr. Shade Yemi-Esan.
After evaluating the screening models of
some schools in
previous years and other factors surrounding
the admission
processes in tertiary institution in the
country, JAMB
released a proposed model for the screening
of
recommended candidates.
PROPOSED JAMB MODEL FOR SCREENING
OF
RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES
1. Screening of candidates shall be for ONLY
candidates
recommended for admissions.
2. No written examination to be conducted.
3. Verification of Course Requirements (O’
levels or A’
levels).
4. Verification of valid JAMB results by
checking br /> i.
Online Result Slip
ii. Printout
iii. Photo Album
v. Checklist
vi. Biometrics
5. Institutions are free to source from other
Course(s) to
compensate for SHORTFALL in any of the
criteria.
If the proposed model for admission as
proposed by JAMB
is to be adopted for 2016/2017 admission
process, below
is how the admission process will run and all
you should
know about it.
1. JAMB must offer a candidate an
admission before such
candidates qualifies for screening in the
institution he or
she has been provisionally admitted. This
means that
institutions can only screening candidates
sent to them by
JAMB as having been provisionally admitted
in such
institution.
2. Institutions admission screening
processes will now be
based on point system. The first on the
point system is the
O’level grading. Candidates who have only
one O-level
result will stand a better chance of gaining
admission than
candidates with 2 results. One 0’level result
= 10marks/
points while two O’level results = 3 marks/
points.
Similarly, each grade will now have its
equivalent points/
marks in this manner; A=6 marks, B=4
marks, C=3 marks
which means the having better grades in
your O’level result
gives you a better chance of securing
admission.
The next to be considered on the point
system is your
UTME Score. Candidates will be awarded
marks/points
based on their 180-200=20-23 marks,
200-250=24-33
points, 251-300=34-43, 300-400=44-60
points. The higher
your score, the higher your chances of
securing admission.
This means that what we previously know as
institutions
cut-off-marks will now be known as
institutions cut-off
points which will be arrived at after putting
all the
aforementioned into consideration.
3. JAMB provisional admission is now a
means to an end
and not an end itself. This means that JAMB
may offer a
candidate a provisional admissions and such
candidate will
still be denied admission by his/her
institution because he
or she comes below the cut-off point for
his/her course in
that particular institution.
For instance you may be given provisional
admission to
study MBBS in UNIBEN by JAMB having
obtained a UTME
score of 260. If your institution’s cut-off
point for medicine
is 95 points and you come below that
number of points
after the screening, you will likely be denied
admission.
4. Admission process will still put into
considerations
factors like catchment area and ELDS
(Educationally Less
Developed States) in determining the number
of candidates
admitted. Admission by merit is 45%,
catchment area 35%
and ELDS 20%.
The issue of Science to arts ratio will still be
in place. For
universities Science to arts ratio will be
60:40 ,
Polytechnics 70:30. However for specialized
institutions
(Technology, Science Agriculture etc) it will
be 100%
related to their specialty. Also 90% of
admission will go to
UTME candidates while 10% will go to Direct
Entry
candidates.
5. Schools are still at liberty to charge a
certain fee for the
screening of candidates. However, the Board
did not
stipulate how much institutions are to
charge for this.
A Former Executive Secretary of the
National Universities
Commission, NUC, Professor Peter
Okebukola, has
disclosed that the scrapping of Post-UTME
means that
tertiary institutions will now go back to the
agreement NUC
had with Vice-Chancellors in 2004 when it
introduced Post-
UTME which is to screen candidates on oral
interview and
written essay.
He pointed out that tertiary institutions were
not suppose to
conduct screening for candidates similar to
that of JAMB
as that was the part of the agreement
guiding the
introduction of Post-UTME. He lamented that
tertiary
institutions have since deviated from that
agreement.
According to him, admission seekers are
supposed to
attain minimum cognitive competence in the
relevant
subjects in the discipline they wished to
study; which is the
aspect JAMB examination covers and also
attain
competence in written and oral English,
critical thinking
and ability to present ideas in logical
sequence which is
what Post-UTME should be all about.
Because of this face, there is every reason
to belief that
some schools may still conduct post utme
exam. However,
it is important to know if you school will
write post utme
exam this year.
Students who applied for the school in JAMB
and have
met requirements (minimum of 180 in JAMB
and a Credit
in Maths and English including subjects
relevant to your
course choice) will come for the screening
with their
credentials. At the screening, they present
their results and
answer a couple of questions (orally) based
on your applied
course (usually basic knowledge questions)
after which
they await the result of this exam.
This usually means getting admission from
JAMB directly
(first list)…and then 2 subsequent lists from
the school.
Now, here’s the catch. Getting the admission
doesn’t mean
you’re home free. Thousands are usually
given this
admission into 100 level, but they don’t get
an Admission
letter from the school in their 100 level,
because a second
screening happens in 200 level.
If a student is unable to finish 100 level with
a CGPA of 2.5
(3.5 in Medicine), he or she will be screened
out of the
school. Only those who achieve this mark
remain in 200
level and are subsequently given the
school’s Admission
letter.
Before the collection of this letter, it’s safe
to assume that
you’re not fully a University student until the
end of this
period of probation.
This screening usually leaves the school with
at least half
of the initially admitted students which is
the needed
population.
How will universities determine cutoff marks
to admit
students.
Before putme was introduced in 2005,
universities have
been admitting people and bringing out
cutoff marks
though the system varies in different
schools.
Some universities used both Jamb results
and o’levels
points, some used only Jamb results. We are
concerned
about UNN and how they used to run
admission when
there was no putme.
Like I said, before putme was introduced
UNN still used to
run her admission same way she does now;
the only
difference is that there was nothing like an
average score.
As we all know, since the introduction of
putme UNN
makes use of an average score of putme
and utme scores
to determine your score for admission. The
cutoff marks
are determined by general performance in
putme.
After the release of primary list, there will be
an
advertisement for supplementary form in
which those that
will score 180/200 and above in “PUTME”
will be eligible to
purchase, fill a lower course that has a lower
cutoff mark
than your average score and compete with
others that will
purchase and fill same course with you.
If you do not purchase this supplementary
form, you will
likely not get admission in subsequent lists
called
supplementary lists. There is nothing like
enrolling your
name in a lower course if you do not
purchase the
supplementary form as a compensation for
not being
admitted in your original course.
You must purchase the supplementary form
for you to be
enrolled in a lower course and not everyone
who
purchases the supplementary form must be
admitted in a
lower course you fill even when your average
score is
above the cutoff mark of that course you
will fill, its mostly
by merit for those with high scores, sorting
with money for
those who can afford it and also luck.
Now you have understood how UNN runs
admission with
putme, lets discus how UNN used to run
admission without
putme.
Like I said, there is no much difference.
After utme (Jamb)
is written, UNN maps out cutoff marks for
different courses
which they dont make public.
The cutoff marks are determined based on
the general
performance in utme. The better people
perform in utme,
the higher the cutoff marks and vice versa.
After the release of primary list, there will be
an
advertisement for supplementary form in
which people who
score 180/200 in utme (Jamb) and choose
UNN in utme
will be eligible to purchase.
During my own time when there was no
putme, I entered
UNN through supplementary by purchasing
supplementary
form then because I was cut off from my
original course
since I didn’t score up to the cutoff mark.
There was nothing like enrolling you into
another course no
matter what your score would be, you must
purchase a
supplementary form. Sorting of admission
with money was
very common then.
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