Jamb Criteria For Admission 2016

The joint admission and matriculation board ”JAMB”  after their meeting on modalities for screening of candidates for the 2016 admissions, drawn to conclusion the criteria for 2016 admission. According to jamb, the grading system will no longer be on marks but on points. This points will be a combination of O’level and JAMB scores. Below are the Details of the Meeting:


Venue of Meeting
The Meeting was held at B.O Ukeje Auditorium, Nation Commission for colleges of Education, Central Business District Abuja on Tuesday 28th for Federal institutions, Wed 29th for state institutions and Thursday 30th June 2016 for Private institutions.
The purpose of the meeting was for stakeholders and educational bodies to work out the modalities of screening candidates duly recommended for admission.
Due to the National importance of the meeting, it was chaired by the permanent secretary to the ministry of Education, these was to ensured that the honorable minister’s directives on the scrapping of post utme and the modalities is strictly adhere to.
ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR ALL INSTITUTION

A. CONVENTIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Universities and colleges of Education
To Admit 60% Science and 40% Arts

B. SPECIALIZED INSTITUTIONS
Universities of technology and Agriculture etc
To admit 100% sciences( like FOTU, FUTA etc)

C. POLYTECHNICS AND COLLEGES OF TECHNOLOGY
To admit 70% Sciences and 30% Arts

UTME & DIRECT ENTRY RATIO
To Admit 90% UTME and 10% DE (Direct Entry)
However in the a place where the 10% DE is not utilize, UTME candidates should be used for complete the quota.

WHAT ALL INSTITUTIONS SHOULD NOTES
The list of candidates that has crossed the minimum cut-off of Jamb but were not admitted into a particular institution should be forwarded back to jamb, as this candidates will be redistributed to other institutions who need them for consideration most preferably to their 2nd choice institutions. What this means is that if you scored up to the general cut-off point say 180 or 200 and above but could not reach the departmental cut-off of your first choice of institution to get admitted. Your name will be forwarded back to JAMB, who will then send your name to any other institution who has left vacancies to admit more students.

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART TO NOTE
In the Meeting, Jamb did some evaluations on processes some universities has been following in the former years as a case study, they used this two varsities which don’t normally write post utme as a case study but uses screening method, they are;
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University and its affiliates 2015/2016 mode of admission, Jamb made remarked on the life span of certificates (O-level) which the school indicated as 5yrs only for you to be admitted, and Jamb also made remarks on how much this varsity collects from aspirants.

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s who use jamb grading systems like 180- 185 as 20 points, 186-190 as 21 points and So on……Jamb faulted and made remarks on;

1. Why they should screen candidates before recommendation and presentation to jamb
2. The weighted course requirements and grades put some students to disadvantage
3. Fees charged for screening, HOW MUCH??

In the meeting, Jamb made some sampled printouts of some federal universities that do conduct written exams using Futo, unilorin, uniabuja, and Unilag as a case study;
Using FUTO Mechanical Engineering department as an example, they have the capacity to admit a total number of 193 for that department. They are suppose to admit 87 on merit, 68 for catchments( they have 5 catchments states, so 68 divided by 5 = 13.5, so they suppose to admit 14 for each catchment states), 39 for EDLS (they have 23 EDLS so 39/23 = 1.6 ~ 2 for each EDLS).
But they summary/outcome jamb gave for futo was: 92:70:14 for  merit: catchment: ELDS

Unilorin admission for law which has a capacity of 89 was also used and the outcome was that they admitted a total of 70 instead of 89 using merit, catchments and ElDS. Uniabuja with a capacity of 444 for Economics department admitted just 370. Unilag with a capacity of 280 for law department had a summary/outcome of 270 instead of 280.

For private institutions, they used about 5 institutions as case study, They Includes;
Covenant university, with 111 capacity for Engineering but only end up admitting just 45 (this, i guess is due to lack of candidates), Salem varsity Lokoja which have a capacity to admit 20 for computer Engineering ended up admitting just 8 (due to lack of candidates) and so on for the remaining 3 varsities used as sample.

For State institutions like Imsu, Lautech, Kaduna. State varsity and 2 others were used, the outcome looked partly like federal universities outcome for those state varsity like imsu who have candidates every year and some outcomes looked like that of private varsity for some state universities that lacks candidates every year.

After the whole evaluation, JAMB came up with a sample of the criteria by which all institutions must apply to admit candidate for this year admission. This take us to;

PROPOSED JAMB MODEL FOR SCREENING OF RECOMMENDED CANDIDATES
1. Screening of candidates shall be for those offeredProvisional Admissions ONLY.
2. No written examination to be conducted.
3. Verification of Course Requirements (O levels or A levels).
4. Verification of valid JAMB results by checking:

• Online Result Slip
• Printout
• Provisional Admission Letter
• Photo Album
• Checklist
• Biometrics

Institutions are free to source from other Course(s) to compensate for SHORTFALL in any of the criteria.

This new method uses a point system that is easy to understand, the whole process is divided into main points as follows;
1. Before a candidate can seat be considered for screening, he/she must have been given provisional admission by Jamb. The Jamb admission checker portal is going to be opened soon for this process, so praying is all you can do now.


2. THE POINT SYSTEM:
This is the most critical part of the process. Jamb’s provisional admission no longer makes much sense this year, your points tally will decide your faith. The points are evenly spread out between your O’level and Jamb results to provide a level playing field for all.
In the first case, any candidate who submits only one result which contains his/her relevant subjects already has 10points, the exam could be NECO, WAEC, GCE etc, but any candidate who has 2 sittings only gets 3 points. So this means that aspirants with only one result has a little more advantage.
The next point grades fall into the O’level grades. Each grades has it’s equivalent point, A=6 marks, B=4 marks, C=3 marks, so the better your grades the better your chances.
The next point is the UTME scores. Each score range has its equivalent point which can be summarized thus, 180-200=20-23 marks, 200-250=24-33 points, 251-300=34-43, 300-400=44-60 points. Each categories contains 5 Jamb results per point added, for example a candidate with 180-185 gets 20points, a candidate with 186-190 gets 21 points etc. Points system for DE will be released soon.
3. It then comes down to the fact that fees will still be charged for screening, it depends on the school as well.
4) Catchment and ELDS will still be used!

Source: .www.jamb.gov.ng