The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said, on Tuesday, that it would
begin the sale of forms for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in
March, 2017.
A statement
by the spokesperson for JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the agency had taken
time to add value to the services it had been offering to Nigerians for over
three decades.
Benjamin stated, “In the course of conducting admission, many institutions have
admitted candidates on merit only for them to discover that such candidates do
not have qualified O’Level results or the right combination of subjects for
admission and had to delete and start the process all over again. With this,
they would have denied other qualified candidates the opportunities for
admissions.
“This, we
are addressing by ensuring that no candidate is henceforth recommended without
his O’Level result being supplied. To achieve this, JAMB will insist that
candidates supply their result on its website during registration or later, but
before admissions commence for them to be considered for admissions. We believe
this will allow only qualified candidates to be considered for admissions.”
The board
explained that candidates would henceforth be allowed to make one choice of
public university, in which new registration platform will now be first choice,
second choice, third choice and fourth choice.
According to
him, the restructuring is aimed at expanding the opportunities available to
candidates since almost all the public universities do not consider candidates
on the second choice list because they hardly exhaust the applicants on the
first choice list.
Benjamin
said, “We have designed a central admissions processing system, where the board
will interface with the institutions and ensure compliance with this reform.
“The summary
is that no candidate will be admitted with awaiting result. Candidates and
their parents are also to note that JAMB has restructured the registration
platform to allow for only one choice of public university.
“The new
registration platform will now be first choice, second choice, third choice and
fourth choice and not most preferred, preferred e.t.c as it was.
“Candidates’
first choice can be a college, university, innovative enterprises institutions
or polytechnic/monotechnic.
“However, if
a candidate makes a public university his first choice, he will not have any
public university to choose for second, third and fourth choice. He will have
on the remaining three choices, a college, polytechnic, private university and
IEIs.
“However,
candidates for the 2017 UTME can now select the National Certificate in
Education (College) or National Diploma (Polytechnic/Monotechnic) as their
first choice up to third choice and the fourth IEI. They can select the IEI
(Innovative Enterprise Institution, ND) as their first choice up to the fourth
choice, but can only pick a public university once.”
He added
that the registration for the 2017 UTME and direct entry would go on at the
same time, stating that during registration, candidates’ 10 fingers would be
captured through the biometric verification machine.
Benjamin
also warned candidates that no cyber café would register candidates for the
UTME.
Benjamin
stated, “On no account should any candidate patronize any cyber café for
registration. It is important to note that the board will not deploy the use of
any scratch card for the 2017 UTME registration.
“The board
is poised to see that a reasonable percentage of candidates, who take this
examination and are qualified, find placement in tertiary institutions.”
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