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JAMB Pegs University Cut-off Mark at 160

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced 160 as the cut-off mark for 2020 admissions into universities in Nigeria.

While announcing this on Tuesday June 16, 2020, during a virtual meeting, the Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, added that the benchmark for polytechnics was pegged at 120, colleges of education and innovative institutions at 100 and above.

The JAMB Registrar disclosed that 612, 557 candidates were offered admission in 2019. He said about 510,957 admission spaces were unused by tertiary institutions.

Oloyede noted that only 1,157,977 candidates had the required five credits with English and mathematics that sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations last year.

“Out of 1,157,977 candidates who sat for UTME in 2019, about 612,557 were admitted,” Prof Oloyede said.

“Candidates waiting for their results will only be considered when they are uploaded on the website,” he added.

While directing JAMB and tertiary institutions to proceed with the conduct of 2020/2021 admissions, the minister of education, Mr Adamu Adamu, warned that charges for the screening exercise should not exceed 2000 naira.

The minister urged JAMB and tertiary institutions to consider candidates with previous years Senior School Certificate Examination and other qualifying results, to proceed with the admission process.

He said the government would make an arrangement that would accommodate applicants who will be taking the examination when the opportunity to do so is worked out.

“As major stakeholders, we must jointly come up with reactions that would realign our programmes to these new realities.

“While these reactions are being fine-tuned to check their capacities and capabilities to withstand the new reality, JAMB and tertiary institutions could take advantage of the current situation and consider candidates with previous years Senior School Certificate Examination and other qualifying results, to proceed on with the admission process,” Mr Adamu said.

“Whatever arrangement that the country comes up within the long run, will surely accommodate those who will be taking the examination when the opportunity to do so is worked out,” he added.

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