2017 JAMB POINTS CALCULATIONS FOR ADMISSION

Joint Admissions and Matriculation

Board has announced the release of its

guidelines for the 2017 admissions’

process.

The method , described as the point

system option , was adopted after an

extensive one - week meeting JAMB had

with universities and other tertiary

institutions’ administrators in the

country .

According to the guidelines contained

in a statement placed on its website on

Monday night , JAMB said that the

modalities were going to be based on

point system .

While explaining how the admission

process would work for Unified Tertiary

Matriculation Examination candidates

and direct entry students , the

organisation stated that universities

were going to charge fees for screening

of candidates at the end of the process

for admission .

According to JAMB, the new method

uses a point system to offer provisional

admission to candidates .

“ Before a candidate can be considered

for screening, he /she must have been

offered a 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 ,” JAMB said.

The second process, it said, was the

point system where admission would

depend on the point tally of the

candidate.

The statement said, “ 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 10

points . The exam could be NECO ,

WASSCE, November/ December WASSCE

etc , but any candidate who has two

sittings only gets 2 points . So this

means that candidates with only one

result are at an advantage but only

just .”

The organisation added that the “ next

point grades fell into the O’ Level

grades where each grade would have it

equivalent point; A= 6 marks , B= 4

marks , C= 3 marks , so the better the

candidates ’ grades, the better his or

her chances of securing admission this

year.

“ The next point is the UTME scores

where each score range has its

equivalent point which can be

summarised thus, 180- 200 = 20- 23 marks ,

200- 250 = 24- 33 points , 251 - 300= 34- 43,

300- 400 = 44- 60 points ,” JAMB explained .

Giving a breakdown , JAMB explained

that each category would contain five

JAMB results per point added .

For example a candidate with 180 - 185

gets 20 points , while a candidate with

186- 190 gets 21 points .

JAMB added that the point system for

direct entry would be released soon .

JAMB stated that fees would still be

charged for screening which would

replace the Post UTME test.

JAMB also emphasised that catchment

and educationally less - developed state

would still be used for admission into

the nation ’s tertiary institutions.

JAMB said, “ Merit contains 45 per cent

of the total candidates for a particular

course, Catchment contains 35 per cent

and ELDS and staff lists contains the

rest. Cut off marks will be released by

the institutions this year in the form of

points and not marks .

“ If a school declares its cut off mark for

Medicine as 90 points and JAMB grants

a candidate with 250 a provisional

admission but his / her total points falls

short of the 90 points , then he /she will

lose the admission . So the provisional

admission is just a means to an end, not

the end in itself . ”