New Jamb Rules And Universities Affected by New Jamb Rules

 New Jamb Rules And Universities Affected by New Jamb Rules

It has just come to our notice that jamb has changed some things in their rules. And this article is basically to show you the whole details of the New Jamb Rules And Universities Affected by New Jamb Rules.

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New Jamb Rules And Universities Affected by New Jamb Rules: There is no change in the jamb cut off mark from the normal 180 which is usually used as the cut off mark by jamb over the previous years except the following universities.

University of Lagos (UNILAG).

Following the rancour at the University of Lagos on Wednesday morning over admission scores, the spokesperson of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Fabian Benjamin, has said universities are allowed to go above the National admission examination cut off mark.

JAMB had announced 180 as the cut off score for admission into degree programmes and 150 for national certificate in education, national diploma and national innovation diplomas.

But explaining to our team Mr. Benjamin said a university, depending on its peculiarities , can raise its cut off mark above the national recommendation of 180.

In the early hours of Wednesday, hundreds of Unified Matriculation Examination candidates stormed the University of Lagos to protest the decision of the institution to stop candidates from writing the forthcoming post UTME.

Many candidates with their parents gathered at the university gates as early as 7 a.m. chanting solidarity songs, demanding the removal of the JAMB registrar, Dibu Ojerinde.

“We were stopped at the gate simply because we got below 250 which they claim is the schools cut-off mark,” he said.

University of Ibadan (UI)

As controversy continued to trail the alleged attempts by authorities of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, and the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB), to change the official cut-off mark of JAMB from 180 to 250, authorities of the University of Ibadan (UI), have distanced the university from the controversial cut-off mark.

Other Federal universities referred to as most sought after schools said to also have been New Jamb Rules and to have increased JAMB cut-off mark from 200 to 250 were the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ife, Osun State, University of Ibadan (UI), Oyo State, University of Illorin (UNILORIN), Kwara State, and University of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka, Enugu State.