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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has explained that admissions would be given only to qualified candidates who applied for courses into the various institutions of the country. T…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has explained that admissions would be given only to qualified candidates who applied for courses into the various institutions of the country.

It also decried the reports that every year, after the conduct of the Unified Tertiary and Universities Examination , where millions of candidates apply, barely 20 per cent get admitted. “Given this scenario, it will be absurd for any narrative to assume huge admission backlogs without first considering whether the candidates that are not admitted are actually qualified for the courses they applied for.”

“The above clearly states that out of the 1,793,018 candidates that applied for admission in 2018, only 1,200,748 candidates scored 100 and above and possessed the O’Level credit requirement for admission.“The 100 cut-off mark in UTME is not an admissible score for most institutions apart from the Innovative Enterprise Institutions which award the National Innovative Diploma .

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