Take time and read properly so that you understand what's
happening:
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.The Modalities for 2016/2017 Admission processes Into
Higher institutions as was released by JAMB
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1- The meeting was held at:
B.O Ukeje Auditorium, Nation Commission for colleges of
Education, Central Business District Abuja.... on Tuesday
28th for Federal institutions, Wed 29th for state institutions
and Thursday 30th June 2016 for Private institutions....
The meeting was for stakeholders and educational bodies to
work out the modalities of screening candidates duly
recommended for admission.
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Due to the National importance of the meeting, it was
chaired by the permanent secretary to the ministry of
Education, this is to ensure that the honorable minister's
directives on the scrapping of postume and the modalities
is STRICTLY ADHERED TO.
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2- ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR ALL INSTITUTIONS-
A- CONVENTIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Universities and colleges of Education
To Admit 60% Science and 40% Arts
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B- SPECIALIZED INSTITUTIONS
Varsities of technology, Agriculture etc
To admit 100% sciences ( but 80% sciences and 20%
others..... For state varsity and colleges of Education)
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C- Polytechnic and colleges of Technology
To admit 70% Sciences and 30% Arts
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3- UTME/DIRECT ENTRY ratio
To Admit 90% UTME
". ". 10% DE
Where the 10% for DE is not utilized, UTME candidates
should be used in completing the quota
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4- ISSUES TO NOTE BY ALL Institutions....
The list of candidates that has crossed the minimum cutoff
of Jamb but were not admitted into a particular institution
should be forwarded back to jamb, as this candidates will
be redistributed to other institutions who need them for
consideration.....most preferably their 2nd choice
institution....
(This means that those who scored the general cutoff say
180 or 200 and above but couldn't reach the departmental
cutoff and were not admitted will be forward to other
institution for admission consideration, just like eligibility
stuff last year)
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5- STUDY HERE PROPERLY,
In the Meeting, Jamb did some evaluations on processes
some universities has been following in the former years as
a case study, they used this two varsities which don't
normally write pume as a case study but uses screening
method: these are:
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Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University and its affiliates
2015/2016 mode of admission, Jamb made remarked on the
life span of certificates (O-level) which the school indicated
as 5yrs only for you to be admitted, and Jamb also made
remarks on how much this varsity collects from aspirants
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Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida's who use jamb grading
systems like 180- 185 as 20 points, 186-190 as 21 points
and So on...
Jamb faulted and made remarks on
1- why they should screen candidates before
recommendation and presentation to jamb
2- The weighted course requirements and grades put some
students to disadvantage
3- fees charged for screening, HOW MUCH??
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In the meeting, Jamb made some sampled printouts of some
federal universities that do conduct written exams.... Using
Futo, unilorin, uniabuja, and Unilag as a case study
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Using FUTO Mechanical Engineering department as an
example, they have the capacity to admit a total number of
193 for that department...
they suppose to admit 87 on merit, 68 for catchments( they
have 5 catchments states, so 68 divided by 5 = 13.5, so
they suppose to admit 14 for each catchment states), 39 for
EDLS (they have 23 EDLS so 39/23 = 1.6~ 2 for each
EDLS)....
But they summary/outcome jamb gave for futo was:
92:70:14 for merit: catchment: ELDS
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Unilorin admission for law which has a capacity of 89 was
also used and the outcome was that they admitted a total of
70 instead of 89 using merit, catchments and ElDS....
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Uniabuja with a capacity of 444 for Economics department
admitted just 370
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Unilag with a capacity of 280 for law department had a
summary/outcome of 270 instead of 280...
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For private institution, they used about 5 institutions as
case study, where
Covenant varsity, with 111 capacity for Engineering end up
admitting just 45 (I guess due to lack of candidates), Salem
varsity Lokoja which have a capacity to admit 20 for
computer Engineering ended up admitting just 8 (due to lack
of candidates) and so on for the remaining 3 varsities used
as sample....
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For State institutions: Imsu, Lautech, Kaduna. State varsity
and 2 others were used, the outcome looked partly like
federal uni outcome for those state varsity like imsu who
have candidates every year and some outcomes looked like
that of private varsity for some state universities that lacks
candidates every year...
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6- After the whole evaluation, JAMB came up with this As
the MODALITIES TO BE TAKEN THIS YEAR By All
institutions:
PROPOSED JAMB MODEL FOR SCREENING OF
RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES*
_1.Screening of candidates shall be for those offered
*Provisional Admissions* ONLY.
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_2.No *written examination* to be conducted._
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3.Verification of Course Requirements (O levels or A
levels)._
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4.Verification of valid JAMB results by checking:_
_i.Online Result Slip_ _ii.Printout_
_iii.Provisional Admission Letter_
_iv.Photo Album_
_v.Check list_
_vi.Biometrics
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*5.Institutions are free to source from other Course(s) to
compensate for SHORTFALL in any of the criteria..
This new method uses a point system that is easy to
understand, the whole process is divided into main points
as follows;
1) Before a candidate can seat be considered for screening,
he/she must have been given provisional admission by
Jamb. The Jamb admission checker portal is going to be
opened soon for this process, so praying is all you can do
now.
2) THE POINT SYSTEM:
This is the most critical part of the process. 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.
In the first case, any candidate who submits only one result
which contains his/her relevant subjects already has
10points, the exam could be NECO, WAEC, GCE etc, but any
candidate who has 2 sittings only gets 3 points. So this
means that aspirants with only one result are at an
advantage but only just.
The next point grades fall into the O'level grades. Each
grades has it's equivalent point, A=6 marks, B=4 marks,
C=3 marks, so the better your grades the better your
chances.
The next point is the UTME scores. Each score range has its
equivalent point which can be summarized thus,
180-200=20-23 marks, 200-250=24-33 points,
251-300=34-43, 300-400=44-60 points. Each categories
contains 5 Jamb results per point added, for example a
candidate with 180-185 gets 20points, a candidate with
186-190 gets 21 points etc.
Points system for DE will be released soon.
3) It then comes down to the fact that fees will still be
charged for screening, it depends on the school as well.
4) Catchment and ELDS will still be used!
Source: . www.jamb.gov.ng
