The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that the 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, NAN reports.
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.
The statement read:
“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.”
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 the move should rather
be applauded, instead of condemning the Dibu
Ojerinde-led JAMB management.
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