Heads of
tertiary institutions have agreed on a minimum score of 160 for 2020/2021
admissions.
They also
adopted 120 for polytechnics and 100 for colleges.
Speaking
during the 2020 policy meeting on admissions, Registrar of the Joint Admissions
and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, said no institution is allowed
to go below the minimum score pegged for admission.
Based on
the guidelines released by JAMB during the meeting, 2020 admissions for first
choice is expected to commence in August.
He said:
“One of the decisions taken was that universities will have minimum score point
of UTME as decided by each of the universities.
”For the polytechnics and colleges of education, it
is also as decided by each of the institutions except that no institution would
be allowed to admit a candidate for universities if you have scored less than
160 in UTME but that is not the only thing that will be taken for admission.
“Some of
theme will do Post- UTME and some of them will do physical assessment and that
will be added to it (UTME score) to determine the cut-off or what we call the
minimum score.
“The
minimum score as decided at the meeting for universities will be 160, for
polytechnics will be 120 and for colleges of education will be 100. That does
not mean that it is to be accepted and we have seen what each institution has
decided.
“Nobody
can admit a candidate with a score less than what the institution prescribed,
that’s, the who set 210 can be 210 not 209. Those who set 200 is 200 but nobody
is allowed to go below 160 for universities.”
- The
Nation
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