The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) is seeking to correct a serious misconception of certain paragraphs in its last press release.
It’s been widely reported by even some of the major newspapers in the country including premiumtimesng.com that JAMB has “scrapped awaiting results”, thereby making people have the fear that prospective candidates awaiting their WAEC results or NECO results can no longer write JAMB and therefore would not be allowed to write this year’s JAMB examination.
Here are the paragraphs of the press release that appear to have been misunderstood, the paragraphs read:
“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. 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’levels 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 (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 the 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.”
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