The
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released its guidelines for the
2016 admissions’ process.
The exam body said it
has adopted what it termed the point system option after an extensive one-week
meeting JAMB had with universities and other tertiary institutions’
administrators in the country.
While explaining how
the admission process would work for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
candidates and direct entry students, the organisation stated that universities
were going to charge fees for screening of candidates at the end of the process
for admission.
According to JAMB, “the new method uses a point system to
offer provisional admission to candidates.”
“Before a candidate can be considered for screening,
he/she must have been offered a 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,” JAMB said.
The statement said, “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 10 points. The exam
could be NECO, WASSCE, November/December WASSCE etc, but any candidate who has
two sittings only gets 2 points. So this means that candidates with only one
result are at an advantage but only just.”
The organisation added that the “next point grades fell
into the O’ Level grades where each grade would have it equivalent point; A=6
marks, B=4 marks, C=3 marks, so the better the candidates’ grades, the better
his or her chances of securing admission this year.
“The next point is the UTME scores where each score range
has its equivalent point which can be summarised thus, 180-200=20-23 marks,
200-250=24-33 points, 251-300=34-43, 300-400=44-60 points,” JAMB explained.
Giving a breakdown, JAMB explained that each category
would contain five JAMB results per point added.
For example a candidate with 180-185 gets 20 points,
while a candidate with 186-190 gets 21 points.
JAMB added that the point system for direct entry would
be released soon.
JAMB stated that fees would still be charged for
screening which would replace the Post UTME test.
JAMB also emphasised that catchment and educationally
less-developed state would still be used for admission into the nation’s
tertiary institutions.
JAMB said, “Merit contains 45 per cent of the total
candidates for a particular course, Catchment contains 35 per cent and ELDS and
staff lists contains the rest. Cut off marks will be released by the
institutions this year in the form of points and not marks.
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“If a school declares its cut off 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.”
If you have 1 sitting.. it's automatically 10 points for you
Calculate your O'level aggregate of the 5 subject
A1 = 6
B2, B3 = 4
C4,C5,C6 = 3
Let's say one has 2 A's and 3 B's
6+6+4+4+4 = 24
Assuming one had 250
In utme = 33
Add all together
10 +24 + 33 = 67
Aggregate = 67
For jamb
Soo for jamb
180-185=20pts
186-190=21pts
191-195=22pts
196-200=23pts
201-205=24pts
206-210=25pts...
In that order sha....
to make the 60points obtainable for 396-400=60pts..
So for example, an aspirant with 1 sittings O'level(10pts) 2 A1s(12pts) 3Cs(9pts) and 292 in jamb(42pts) will then have a total screening score of 73%
thats it just calculate it.
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