Four of the Nigerian universities that submitted their benchmark rating for admissions forward of the 2024 coverage assembly usually are not allowed by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to confess candidates who scored under 200 within the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, findings by The PUNCH have revealed.
The UTME, which is organised by JAMB, is the one acceptable examination taken by people in search of admission into tertiary establishments in Nigeria.
Though some tertiary establishments should schedule post-UTME for candidates who apply to them, no particular person may be admitted and not using a consequence verified by JAMB.
The UTME is often primarily based on 4 topic combos with every topic marked over 100, giving a complete of 400 marks.
Though college students are at liberty to decide on their topic mixture in keeping with their chosen course of examine, the usage of English is obligatory for all college students who want to be admitted into the nation’s tertiary schooling system.
Recall that the 2024 coverage assembly mounted 140 because the minimal benchmark rating for admissions into universities. Though JAMB famous that every college is at liberty to repair its personal benchmark rating, it famous that no candidate have to be admitted with lower than 140 scores.
However, in a doc obtained by The PUNCH, JAMB famous that establishments usually are not allowed to go under their self-prescribed benchmark rating.
“No institution can admit below its self-prescribed minimum score,” the board warned.
In a listing of prescribed minimal scores, our correspondent noticed {that a} complete of 153 universities submitted their prescribed minimal scores for admissions out of which eight universities really helpful 120 as a benchmark for admission. However, going by the board’s requirements, they don’t seem to be allowed to confess college students till they up their minimal rating to 140.
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Further evaluation revealed that 11 establishments, together with Pan-Atlantic University, which prescribed 220 because the minimal benchmark rating, gained’t admit under 220; Covenant University, 200; Obafemi Awolowo University, 200; and University of Lagos, 200, gained’t go along with the 140 really helpful benchmark by the coverage assembly.
Others like Afe Babalola University, 180; Ahmadu Bello University, 180; Federal University of Technology, Ikot Abasi, 180; Lagos State University of Science and Technology, 180; Nigerian Police Academy, 180; Nigerian University of Technology, 180 and the Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila-Orangun, 180 can even not admit college students under 180 owing to the directive by JAMB.
The PUNCH reviews that there have been controversies over the announcement of the minimal benchmark rating.
Speaking with our correspondent on Monday, JAMB’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, famous that whereas the overall benchmark rating for admission stands at 140, establishments, just like the University of Lagos, which submitted 200, can not admit under the submitted rating.
“Unilag isn’t even allowed to admit 199. They can’t admit lesser than 200 because that is what they submitted. The general benchmark is 140, which means no university can admit below that score; they can’t admit 120, 130. Also, you can’t admit below what you submitted as your benchmark. So Unilag can’t even admit 199,” Benjamin mentioned.