Head of JAMB, Lagos, Dr. Beatrice Okorie
said, “The 2015 UTME candidates are to check JAMB’s website on Monday,
August 3, for the list and the universities they have been redistributed
to”, Vanguard reports.
Okorie, spoke on the controversy rocking the new admissions policy.
“If
we had not done that, many of these candidates would have fallen prey
of the universities’ money-making machine, that is, the post-UTME
without securing admission even with their high scores,” she added.
This measure is quite logical.
The
University of Lagos for example, cannot accommodate more than 5,000
students, and yet has about 32,000 candidates struggling for the slots.
She added:
“What
we have done is to look at those who have not met with the cut-off
points of UNILAG based on merit, catchment areas and the educationally
less disadvantaged areas, but who have chances of securing admission in
other federal and state universities and push them there to write
post-UTME tests.”
Okorie, who slammed universities
that are using the post UTME to make money, reiterated JAMB’s
commitment to helping candidates secure admission without stress.
According
to her, what is the essence of post-UTME being conducted on English,
Mathematics and general papers? They are fraudulent and that is what the
stakeholders have stepped in to address.”
On
UNILAG, she queried the rationale behind its decision to conduct test on
Mathematics for students seeking admission in subjects not related to
Mathematics such as Religious Studies, History, Dramatic Arts, among
others.
Meanwhile, the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka, UNN on Saturday has placed its cut-off mark above 230 as
students who scored 230 were not short-listed for post-UTME.
Our
source said: “The Post-UTME details which came out on Saturday at UNN
affected many students who scored over 200 in their UTME, even those who
scored 230 in UTME were not short-listed for post-UTME in UNN,
suggesting that their cut-off Mark is above 230. ‘’However, no official
cut-off has been announced.'
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