JAMB abolishes and adopts new methods for 2021 UTME cut off marks

The management of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday, has cancelled the general cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions and adopt new methods for 2021 UTME cut off marks that allowed the institutions freedom to set their individual minimum benchmark for admission.

According to the Registrar Prof Ishaq Oloyede the new arrangement, universities are not allowed to go below 120 while polytechnics and Colleges of Education, are not allowed to go below 100 for admission.

Moreover, this means that there will be no uniform cut-off marks for the 2021/2022 admissions.

On the deadline for the closure of admissions, the meeting resolved to allow the education ministry to reach a decision as they could not agree on the December 31, deadline for all public institutions and January 31, 2022, for all private institutions.

More so, stakeholders also adopted the 2021 admission guidelines, which provide that all applications for part-time or full-time programmes for degrees, NCE, OND, and others must be posted only through JAMB.

The meeting approved that for Direct Entry, DE, the maximum score a candidate can present is 16 and the minimum is 2 or E, as required by law.

Meanwhile, the meeting agreed that the total fee for Post–Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination should not be more than N2, 000 with the JAMB boss, Oloyede, warning the institutions not to go beyond the pegged fee during the meeting.

He said: “Nobody should charge more than N2,000. The total gross is N2, 000. It is not allowed by institutions to allow candidates to procure administrative charges.

“No institution is allowed to capture or demand any result upload. It is the one that we upload on caps that we will send to all of you. The biometrics supplied by jamb should be used for the exercise.”

The next meeting is scheduled for October.