The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved 160 and above as cutoff point for 2020/21 admission into universities across the country.
It also published names of 10 best students in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The registrar of the board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this during a presentation of policy consideration at the 2020 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions.
At the virtual meeting held via the Zoom network at the headquarters of JAMB in Abuja yesterday, Oloyede said while 160 and above had been approved as cut off mark for admission into polytechnics, 100 and above was agreed as the score for admission into colleges of education and innovation enterprise institutions.
He explained that the decision was taken after each of the Institutions had voted and prescribed minimum cut off marks for their schools.
“No University would be allowed to admit a candidate if he or she has scored less than 160 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
“Also, that is not the only thing that would be taken for admission, some would do post UTME and other physical assessments and that will be added to it to determine the cut off mark.
“Nobody can admit a candidate with a score less than what the institution prescribed. That is, those who voted for 210 can maintain the figure and not 209 or anything below 210.
“All those who prescribed less than 160 for universities cannot be accepted but 160 and above and the same goes for Polytechnics and Colleges of Education.
“Every institution will have what it prescribed for itself except for those who prescribed lower and have to come up above the minimum mark,” he said.
Oloyede said that there would be no admissions outside the board’s Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).
According to him, any institution that violates the decisions as agreed at the policy meeting would be sanctioned.
He said that the admission process for 2020/21 would commence from August 21.
“Following the country’s uncertainty in the events of the pandemic, a date for the deadline has not been decided yet but would be communicated later by the Ministry of Education.
“All institutions must not charge more than N2000, including bank charges, for their post UTME,” Oloyede said.
The Registrar said that waiver has been approved for foreign candidates, the deaf and blind as well as prison candidates against sitting for post UTME screening.
“This was because of the difficulty in the process as complained by the group,” he said.
The meeting was organised by JAMB to signify the commencement of admissions into tertiary institutions.
It had in attendance the permanent secretary, ministry of education, director general of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and staff of the board.
Other participants were vice chancellors, rectors and provosts of all tertiary institutions across the country, as well as members of JAMB governing board.
Meanwhile, the board has published the names of 10 candidates who came tops in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
It said the candidates scored between 352 and 365 in their UTME.
Two candidates from Anambra State scored 365 and 363 scores, respectively.
They were followed by a candidate from Edo State with 359 while two candidates from Ekiti made the list on the fourth and fifth positions, scoring 358 and 356 respectively.
Another two candidates from Delta also scored 359 and 352 respectively.
Other states that appeared on the list are Ekiti, Ondo, Akwa Ibom, Kwara, Oyo, and Ogun states.
Out of the 13 listed candidates, two scored 359, two, 355, while four candidates scored 352.
“They are 10 in number and if you notice, some of the candidates scored the same mark and they are (tied) on the same position,” said JAMB’s spokesman, Mr. Fabian Benjamin,
The 10 students and their scores are
1) Maduafokwa Egoagwuagwu Agnes -365
2) Nwobi Okwuchukwu David – 363
3) Ojuba Mezisashe Shalom – 359
3) Elikwu, Victor Chukwuemeka – 359
5) Adebola Oluwatobi Paul – 358
6) Gboyega Oluwatobiloba Enoch – 356
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7) Ojo Samuel Oluwatobi – 355
7) Utulu, Jebose George – 355
9) Osom Akan Awesome – 353
10) Akakabota Fejiro Simeon – 352
11) Ogundele Favour Jesupemi – 352
12) Alatise Monsurah Bisola. – 352
13) Adelaja Oluwasemilore Daniel – 352
All 10 candidates applied to study engineering courses, ranging from industrial production, mechanical, civil, computer to electrical engineering.
