JAMB To Begin Sale Of 2017 UTME Forms In March

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday said it would begin the sale of forms for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in March, 2017.

This disclosure was made known in a statement by its spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin.

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According to him, 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.”

“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.”

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