Jamb New Admission Criteria With Modality Score

As was announced earlier today on

www.jamb.gov.ng , the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board has finally released the
modalities for this year's admission process, in
other words, the method of admission.

This new method uses a point system that is
easy to understand, the whole process is divided
into main points as follows;

1) Before a candidate can seat be considered for
screening, he/she must have been given
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.

2) THE POINT SYSTEM:
This is the most critical part of the process.
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 10points, the exam could be
NECO, WAEC, GCE etc, but any candidate who
has 2 sittings only gets 2 points. So this means
that aspirants with only one result are at an
advantage but only just.
The next point grades fall into the O'level
grades. Each grades has it's equivalent point,
A=6 marks, B=4 marks, C=3 marks, so the better
your grades the better your chances.
The next point is the UTME scores. Each score
range has its equivalent point which can be
summarized thus, 180-200=20-23 marks,
200-250=24-33 points, 251-300=34-43,
300-400=44-60 points. Each categories contains
5 Jamb results per point added.

3) It then comes down to the fact that fees will
still be charged for screening, it depends on the
school as well.

4) Catchment and ELDS will still be used! Merit
contains 45% of the total candidates for a
particular course, Catchment contains 35% and
ELDS and staff lists contains the rest.

5) Cutoff marks will be released by schools this
year in the form of points and not marks.