EDUCATIONAL UPDATE:Summary of JAMB CAPS Sensitization Programme And Key Points To Note

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) has revealed in the just concluded
sensitization programme on CAPS that apart
from candidate's JAMB cut-off mark, there are
other factors that determines whether a
candidates gets admission.
These criteria comprise O'level result and other
admission criteria the school may put in place.
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Oloyede said that scoring higher than the
minimum cut-off marks did not guarantee
admission but made candidates eligible for
admission consideration.

Oloyede mentioned that the cut-off mark by
JAMB is only a threshold below which no
institution can admit candidates.
Institutions have the right to determine their own
general cut-off marks and departmental cut-off
marks. However these cut-off marks must not be
below the JAMB's minimum cut-off marks.
Explaining the responsibility of JAMB, Prof.
Oloyede said "JAMB is not an examination body
rather it is a ranking body. If there are enough
spaces in the tertiary institutions there may not
be need for UTME."

“JAMB is a screening body to rank already
qualified candidates. It is a coordinating and
clearing house and hence not a pass or fail
exam" he noted.
Oloyede who asserted that Nigeria has the same
admission process with countries like China, Iran,
Republic of Georgia, Spain and Turkey, stated
that the newly introduced Central Processing
System, will ensure that every UTME candidate
got fair treatment in the admission process,
prevent "back door" admission by many
institutions and make it easier to track and
manage the admission process by all parties
involved.

Other Key Points To Note

Candidates must upload their O'level and A'level
(Direct Entry) results before they can be
considered for admission.

The Central Admission Processing System makes
it possible for JAMB to confirm/verify results
uploaded by candidates from various examination
bodies like NECO, WAEC and NABTEB.
In the Central Admission Processing System,
institutions will login to their respective
dashboards and set their admission criteria and
equally set the percentage weight for each of
the admission criteria.

The Central Processing System will calculate and
rank the aggregate, composite or effective score
of each candidate that applied to a particular
school based on the admission criteria settings
of the institution.

A proposed admission list would now be made
available by the system which the school
admission officer is to download and send to all
the principal officers of the school for approval.
If the school rejects a candidate on the list, a
reason has to be given.
With the approval of the list, the final list of
candidates is re-uploaded on JAMB portal. JAMB
will now notified the candidates on the list of
their admission.

Candidates are to either accept or reject the
admission withing 72 hours (3 days).

If you reject the admission, your profile and
details becomes available in the market place for
other institutions that can accept the
qualification you have for the course you intend
to study to offer you admission.

Once a candidate accepts his or her admission.
Such candidate no longer has the privilege to
reject the admission and be scouted by other
institutions in the market place.