Decisions on the 2020/2021 admissions were taken at the Joint Consultative Admission Policy Meeting held by means of digital conference involving vice-chancellors, rectors and provosts of public and non-public tertiary institutions. It was once the first time the meeting was once held barring candidates sitting for the May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and June/July Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), a foremost requirement the candidates need to gain admission.
Two important decisions had been taken as regards the 2020 admission. First, the board and the establishments agreed and pegged cut-off marks for public universities at a hundred and sixty and above, one hundred forty for non-public universities. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, also introduced cut-off marks for polytechnics at one hundred twenty and above whilst those of colleges of schooling had been constant at a hundred and above. Second choice used to be that the admission exercising for 2020/2021 academic session will begin August 2020.
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Ministerial directives
The meeting used to be declared open through the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, also attracted key stakeholders from the National Universities Commission (NUC), officers from the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) and pinnacle officials of the Ministry of Education as properly as other training agencies.
Nwajiuba told the heads of establishments that all the tips leading to a profitable admission workout ought to be strictly adhered to and that they will be held responsible and accountable for all movements and inactions bearing on to the administration of their institutions, along with the procedure and implementation of admissions. He advised the VCs, rectors and provosts to comply with the timeline agreed at the 2020 coverage meeting on the completion of the admission exercise.
“We have to realign our academic calendar, such as the period of admission with international dictates.’’ He restated that no admission provide ought to be made to any candidate outdoor the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), noting that institutions offering admission outside the CAPS are endangering the system and confusing the candidates.
“No institution recapture biometric or photo of any candidate for any different purpose, along with Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (PUTME) registration.” He stated rather than doing so, the board has been directed to make both biometric and facial pix of candidates reachable to the establishments at no cost:
“In addition and for the purposes of emphasis, no institution is allowed to cost greater than N2,000 (including the financial institution charges). The ministry is monitoring compliance and we would not hesitate to sanction every person who violates any of these directives.
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“The holding of this policy meeting signifies the commencement of admission to the nation’s tertiary institutions, conscious of the fact that majority of the applicants are nonetheless ready to take a seat for their qualifying examinations, the SSCE via National Examinations Council (NECO), National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) and the WASSCE through the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). While the Presidential Task Force is working closer to the easing of more restrictions, the Federal Ministry of Education is equally discussing with the examination bodies on approaches and means of responding to the challenge.
“As primary stakeholders, we have to jointly come up with reactions that would realign our programmes to these new realities. While these reactions are being fine-tuned to test their capacities and capabilities to stand up to the new reality, JAMB and tertiary institutions should take benefit of the contemporary situation, and think about candidates with preceding years SSCE and other qualifying results, to proceed on with the admission process. Whatever arrangement that the united states of america comes up with in the lengthy run, will actually accommodate those who will be taking the examination when the probability to do so is labored out.’’
He said the ministry was briefed on the outcome of the 2020 UTME: “We have stated with delight the reduction in instances of examination malpractice, as the effects of the examination, extra than ever before, now signify a real reflection of the performance of the candidates, the corollary of which is that these who are successful and are admitted to the nation’s tertiary institutions can lay declare to their placement as a product of their hard-work.
“Though there is still a lot of ground to be protected to attain a close to best system, the efforts being put into the conduct of the examination and admission techniques are commendable and helpful of emulation.’’
Oloyede’s presentation
Oloyede reiterated the want to uphold the sanctity of the respective cut-off marks as well as the directives of the Ministry of Education: ‘’CAPS is being used as automobile for all admissions since its introduction in the course of the 2017/2018 admissions exercising after collection of engagements with stakeholders. The 2019/2020 admission wasn’t an exception either.’’
He said the 2020 UTME commenced with the habits of mock examination on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, while the most important examination was held nationwide from February eleven to April 18th 2020.
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He warned that no institution would be in a position to move candidates into benefit stage except all effective candidates above him/her are admitted both by merit, catchment or thru educationally downside states. He said no admission could be initiated from JAMB but from the institutions.
Admission timeline
Oloyede stated the board and the tertiary institutions will make certain that admissions periods are sacrosanct and ought to be accompanied and adhered to, stressing the first choice admissions ought to be performed during the duration earmarked for it and other picks need to be processed at some point of the timelines set out for them.
He delivered that JAMB would talk admissions programmes, calendars and timetables to tertiary establishments at once after the coverage meeting. “At the quit of the first preference period, all candidates no longer admitted would be pulled out of the institutions’ platform on CAPS and be made reachable to other willing institutions.
“Any candidate who selects an group for second, 0.33 or fourth preference does no longer want any exchange of desire or charge to the board to be regarded for admission throughout the period of the 2d desire admission. Candidates’ notification of admissions through SMS now upgraded with new facets and commitment and that JAMB will henceforth put up cut-off dates of all establishments to guide candidates and the generic public.
“The board has banned all third-party interactions on its portal for any of its services. Cases have been mentioned with conflicting authorisation for adjustments on candidates’ data, majorly between candidates and their parents or guardians. Fraudsters taking advantage of the naivety of some candidates to collect their quintessential access codes to effect unauthorised adjustments on their profiles.
‘’Consequently, nobody, including parents or guardians or any proxy, would have access to transact any enterprise on candidate’s profile due to the fact fingerprint (or OTP) would be required. It is the Board’s conviction that candidates deserving tertiary schooling ought to be capable to for my part perform all these operations as required.’’
He tasked the over 4,000 heads of institutions, who participated in the digital assembly to start the 2020/2021 admission workout following the released of cut-off marks and the accredited admission guidelines.
Oloyede revealed that 2,110,623 candidates applied for the 2020 admission exercise out of which 1,949,983 candidates wrote the UTME and 160,640 others applied thru direct entry. He mentioned that 1,855, 072, representing 95 per cent are for first degree, 36,219 (1.86 per cent) for schools of education, 58,266 (2.99 per cent) for polytechnics and 426 (0.02 per cent) for innovation employer institutions.
The registrar gave a breakdown of universities with the perfect number of applicants, including University of Ilorin with 103, 582 candidates; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, received 82,984; University of Lagos acquired 74,800; Bayero University, Kano, recorded 70, 376 and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, secured 68,971 candidates.
For the polytechnics, Kaduna Polytechnic leads the pack with 5,014; Federal Polytechnic, Offa, 3,469; Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, 3,293; Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri, 2,758 and Yaba College of Technology, 2,758. Out of 1,949, 983 candidates who applied for admission through UTME, the polytechnics (public and private) bought 58,266 candidates representing 2.99 per cent.
For the schools of education, the best possible sought after establishments protected Federal College of Education, Zaira, with 4,330; Kaduna State College of Education, received 3,707; Saadatu Rimi College of Education, Kano, had 2,999; Federal College of Education, Kano, had 2,451 and Federal College of Education (Technical), Gombe received 2, 239.
State records of candidates for the 2020 UTME printed that Oyo State displayed Imo State with 110,578 candidates, representing 5.67 per cent, Osun State which positioned second acquired 98, 472 (5.05 per cent), Imo State had 97,963 (5.02 per cent), Kaduna State which is fourth amongst the top ten, received 93,473 (4.79 per cent) candidates while Ogun State recorded 93,279 (4.78 per cent) applicants.
The JAMB boss defined that 536,813 candidates, who scored a hundred and twenty and above wrote the 2020 UTME with their O/Level effects and uploaded it on the board’s portal. While over 1,352,989 who bought one hundred twenty and above sat for the matriculation examination as looking forward to end result applicants: “When the WAEC and NECO outcomes are released the candidates have to upload their effects to JAMB portal so that they can be considered for admission.”
Oloyede defined that Lagos State which produced the best candidate with 365 and two others in the top 10, recorded the easiest range of candidates in irrespective of kingdom of starting place with 240,829, representing 12.35 per cent, Ogun State had 109,122 (5.60 per cent), Oyo State universal applicants 103,483 (5.31 per cent), Kaduna State acquired 102,091 (5.24 per cent) and Kano State received 97, 912, representing 5.02 per cent.
He said in the course of the 2020 UTME, the board discovered deliberate motion of candidates from one pc to the different to indulge in examination malpractice.
No uniform UTME minimum rating for admission
JAMB Head of Media and Publicity, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said there is a layer of misconceptions on what is generally described as “uniform minimum national UTME score” for admission. He noted that for long, many candidates and some contributors of the everyday public have come underneath inaccurate impact that there is a minimum countrywide UTME score, which they also referred to as cut -off point:
“The truth is that there is no one unique countrywide minimal UTME rating for all universities, polytechnics or colleges of schooling in Nigeria. It has never been. Similarly, in most cases, UTME rating is now not the sole determinant of placement of candidates into tertiary institutions. The undue attention to the so-called country wide minimum UTME rating (UTME cut-off point) is a predominant source of failure of many ill-informed candidates who assumed that they have subsequently attained the benchmark having performed the so known as minimal countrywide rating or ‘cut off point’ for admission.
“It is consequently a double jeopardy for many candidates who swallow the famous myth that there is a uniform UTME rating (cut-off) for all universities, polytechnics or colleges of education in Nigeria. The fantasy also accommodates the inaccurate influence that it is solely the UTME score that constitutes the benchmark for admission. These are far from the truth. Such candidates on attainment of precise grade in UTME have a good time in strengthen their impending placements, which in truth might also now not be at the quit of the day.’’
“He said that the board has again and again noted that no uniform minimal UTME score (cut-off) for all universities, polytechnics or faculties of schooling in the country; each organization determines and submits to JAMB its minimal UTME score; after having analysed the UTME performances of its candidates against its handy quota:
Decisions at the annual coverage assembly on admission does now not limit the minimal prescription of the establishments barring the few establishments whose submitted minimum UTME- ratings fall beneath what the policy assembly considers as the minimal score acceptable.”
Benjamin defined that UTME rating is simply one of the two or three ratings that are introduced collectively to achieve the aggregate score and ranking of the candidates. Other parameters are Post-UTME /Post -A/L skills screening/test score; O/L grade score; and in some cases, bodily take a look at (such as applicable in the Nigerian Defence Academy/Police Academy). Therefore, it is the score from all the segments that are brought collectively to have eventual ranking table or ‘cut off’ score:
“For the 2020 admission exercise, for example, no candidate with a UTME rating of 209 can be regarded for admission into any programme at the Pan African University (PAN) whose minimal UTME rating is 210. Also, no candidate with a UTME score of 199 can be admitted into any of the universities whose minimal score is 200.’’
“These are Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife; University of Ibadan; Covenant University, Ota; University of Lagos and University of Benin: “No candidate with a score much less than a hundred and eighty can be admitted into many of the universities including, the Lagos State University (190); Afe Babalola University (180); Nigerian Army University, Biu, (180); University of Jos (180); University of Abuja (180); Redeemers University (180); University of Ilorin (180); Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, (180); Bayero University, Kano, (180); Alex Ekwueme University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, (180) and PAMO University of Medical sciences, Port Hacourt (180).
“For polytechnics; no candidate with a UTME score of 199 is admissible into the School of Orthopedic Cast Technology, Ilorin, with 200 as minimal score; simply as the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Imo State, has set a minimum UTME score of 180; Air Force Institute of Technology, Kaduna, (170) and Abdu Gusau Polytechnic, Talata Mafara, Zamfara State (160).
‘’As for the colleges of education, the a hundred minimum rating being paraded is not normally correct. No candidate can be admitted into any of the following faculties of training with a UTME score much less than 180; College of Education, Maru, Zamfara State; Federal College of Education, Eha-Amufu, Enugu State; Akwa Ibom State College of Education, Afaha-Nsit, Akwa Ibom State and Onitsha College of Education, Mbaukwu, Anambra State.
“In the category of innovation company institutions, the minimum UTME score for some of the institutions are as follows; Laurel School of Mines, Ogudu, Lagos, 180; NTA College, Jos, one hundred seventy and Oluaka Institute of Technology, Owerri, 150.’’
He burdened that there are cases of candidates with UTME rankings of above 300 that may additionally rank below some different candidates with UTME rating of 200 when all different scores are aggregated: “Even within each institution, there is a different minimum score (cut–off) for admission into distinctive courses. They are typically substantially higher for courses such as MBBS, Engineering, Nursing and Law, with usual accessible area of much less than 10 per cent of the applicants.
“The board has over the years reiterated the above points to sentisise the ordinary public on the so-called countrywide minimum ratings for all tertiary institutions, which persisted to generate confusion on the quality of candidates being admitted into tertiary establishments in Nigeria.
“It is additionally cited that UTME is a rating examination designed to location the pleasant reachable registered candidates into universities, polytechnics, colleges of schooling and other authorised tertiary establishments in Nigeria. As such, the minimal rankings into each organization or programme vary; based on tutorial performances of candidates who utilized to such institutions. Over the years, few programmes such as MBBS, Engineering, Law and Pharmacy are over-subscribed via candidates.
“Also, some of the establishments appeal to extra candidates than many others, thereby making it quintessential for each group to set its very own minimal score, based on its instances and as approved at the meeting. The board had constantly posted on its website (www.jamb.gov.ng) full small print of minimal UTME score for each institution. JAMB has also continually reminded candidates to word that every programme (course) has a extraordinary minimum score, which is normally very excessive for aggressive programmes.”
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