JAMB Explains Admission Procedure To Protesting Candidates, Parents - Education -
national cut off point for screening of candidates for admission remained
the minimum expectation that each candidate desirous of university
admission should have. This is contained in a statement issued by the
Public Relations Officer of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made available to
newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos.
According to the statement, the attention of the board has been drawn to
the challenge experienced by some candidates who could not access the
University of Lagos site to register for the Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME). The statement said that the board sincerely
sympathised with their frustration.
“We want to seize this opportunity to state that our attention has been
drawn to the agitation by some parents and students who turned out for the
registration for the post JAMB screening exercise for the candidates. “We
sympathise with them but wish to state categorically that the national cut
off point is just the minimum expectation that each candidate desirous of
university admission should have.
“However, universities are at liberty to go higher than 180, depending on
their peculiarities and the performance of candidates who chose them.
“For instance, if over 10,000 candidates who made Unilag their first choice
scored 250 and above, it will be difficult for them to go lower than 250
when they are to admit only about 7000.
“I wish to state that a time will come when some universities will go up to
300 as their cut off mark, depending on the performance,’’ the statement
said.
It explained that because of the development, the board decided that some
of the candidates who chose such institutions but fall below their cut off
marks should not miss out, hence the need to send them to other schools.
The statement added that such a gesture should rather be applauded,
instead of condemning the Dibu Ojerinde-led JAMB management.
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