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*JAMB adopts point system option for 2016 admissions*.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced the release

of its guidelines for the 2016 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."