[BREAKING] UTME: JAMB scraps awaiting results registration

With effect from this year (2017), candidates awaiting
results would no longer be eligible to apply for the
Universities Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, said in
Abuja on Tuesday.
The organisation also said it had concluded all
restructuring and reforms and is now set to commence
the sale of its application document in March.
The restructuring exercise will now allow for only one
choice of public university in which new registration
platform will now be first choice, second choice, third
choice and fourth choice and not most preferred,
preferred choice.
A statement by the spokesperson of JAMB, Dr. Fabian
Benjamin, said the agency had taken time to add value
to the services it have been offering to Nigerians for
over three decades.
According to him, the restructuring was aimed at
expanding the opportunities available to candidates
since almost all the public universities do not consider
candidates on the second choice list because they
hardly exhaust their first choice.
He said, “We have designed a Central Admissions
Processing System 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 result. Candidates and their
parents are also to note that JAMB 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.
“Candidates’ first choice can be a College, University,
Innovative Enterprises Institutions or Polytechnic/
Monotechnic. However, if a candidate makes a Public
University his first choice, he will not have any public
University to choose for second, third and fourth
choice. He will have on the remaining three choices, a
College, Polytechnic, Private University and IEI’S.
However, candidates for the 2017 UTME can now
select National Certificate in Education (College) or
National Diploma (Polytechnic/Monotechnic) as their
first choice up to third choice and the fourth IEI. They
can select the IEI (Innovative Enterprise Institution,
ND) as their first choice up to the fourth choice, but
can only pick a public university once.”


SOURCE... PUNCH