JAMB's New System of Grading for Admission

It has always been a source of worry and speculation for Jambites, the truth about the admission processes. So many score high in Jamb and end up not gaining admission because they didn't get the right information, or didn't get any at all. Now, one of the new things happening around admission is that there is a new system of grading the scores from Jamb.

According to JAMB however, “Before a candidate can be considered for screening, he/she must have been offered a provisional admission by JAMB. The JAMB admission checker portal is going to be opened soon for this process, so praying is all you can do now”

With the new method, JAMB’s provisional admission is certainly not where the process ends.

In a statement on the examination body’s website, “JAMB’s provisional admission no longer makes much sense this year, your points tally will decide your faith. The points are evenly spread out between your O’ Level and JAMB results to provide a level-playing field for all.

“In the first case, any candidate who submits only one result which contains his/her relevant subjects already has 10 points. The exam could be NECO, WASSCE, November/December WASSCE etc, but any candidate who has two sittings only gets 2 points. So this means that candidates with only one result are at an advantage but only just.”

In addition, in O’ Level grades each grade would have an equivalent point; A=6 marks, B=4 marks, C=3 marks.

This means that the better the applicant’s grades, the greater his chance of getting admitted in the year.

UTME results also have a score range with equivalent point reflecting; 180-200=20-23 marks, 200-250=24-33 points, 251-300=34-43, 300-400=44-60 points.

JAMB further explained that each category would have five JAMB results per point added so that a candidate with 180-185 gets 20 points, while a candidate with 186-190 gets 21 points.

The point system for direct entry would soon be released by JAMB even as the screening exercise would replace the scrapped UTME.

JAMB also said, “Merit contains 45 per cent of the total candidates for a particular course, Catchment contains 35 per cent and ELDS and staff lists contains the rest. Cut off marks will be released by the institutions this year in the form of points and not marks.

“If a school declares its cut off mark for Medicine as 90 points and JAMB grants a candidate with 250 a provisional admission but his/her total points falls short of the 90 points, then he/she will lose the admission. So the provisional admission is just a means to an end, not the end in itself.”

In summary :

Those who got their SSCE in one sitting have advantage over those who got theirs in 2 sittings
Also, the higher the JAMB score, the higher the rating and the better the opportunities to gain admission

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