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.
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.