Finally the wait is over! 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.
This was made know to newsmen by the spokesperson
for JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin.
We gathered that the registration of UTME this
year will go side by side with the Direct Entry and during
registration, candidates’ 10 fingers are to be captured using
Biometric Verification Machine (BVN).
Dr. Fabian Benjamin asserted that no candidate
will be admitted with awaiting result.
He said in the cause of conducting admission
exercise, many institutions have admitted candidates on merit only
for them to discover that such candidates do not have qualified
O’levels results or the right combination for admission and had to
delete and start the process all over again.
He said with this, they would have denied other
qualified candidates the opportunities for admissions.
Benjamin explained, “To achieve this, JAMB will
insist that candidates supply their result on its website during
registration or later, but before admissions commences for them to be
considered for admissions. We believe this will allow only qualified
candidates to be considered for admissions.
“The board is poised to see that a reasonable
percentage of candidates who take this examination and are qualified
find placement in tertiary institutions.
The board further 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.
“We have designed a Central Admissions
Processing System (CAPS) where the Board will interface with the
institutions and ensure the compliance of this reform. The summary is
that no candidate will be admitted with awaiting result.
Candidates and their parents are also to note that
the Board 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 etc 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 2nd, 3rd and 4th choice. He will have on the remaining
three choices, a College, a Polytechnic, Private University and
IEI’S. However, candidates for the 2017 UTME can now select NCE
(College) or ND (Polytechnic/Monotechnic) as their 1st choice up to
3rd choice and the 4th IEI. They can select the IEI (Innovative
Enterprise Institution, ND) as their 1st choice up to the 4th choice,
but can only pick a public university once.
“This restructuring is to expand the
opportunities available to candidates as almost all the public
universities do not consider candidates on the second choice list
because they hardly exhaust their first choice”.
“Again, we want to inform candidates that no
cyber café will be registering candidates for our examination. On no
account should any candidate patronize any cybercafé for our
registration. It is important to note that the Board will not deploy
the use of any scratch card for the 2017 UTME registration exercise.”
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