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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has pegged the cut-off marks of 2020/2021 admission for universities and polytechnics at 160 and 120 respectively.
The cut-off point for colleges of education and innovative institutions were also fixed for 100.
These were announced on Tuesday by the The Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, in his speech read at the 2020 policy meeting on the admission for the 2020/2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
Oloyede warned institutions across the country not to charge more than N2,000 for their screening test to those seeking admission.
He disclosed that 612,557 candidates were offered admission in 2019 while about 510,957 admission spaces were not used by tertiary institutions in the same year.
The Jamb Registrar further stated that only 1,157,977 candidates had the required five credits with English and Mathematics that sat for the UTME held in 2019. “Out of 1,157,977 candidates, who sat for UTME in 2019, about 612,557 were admitted.”
“The institutions have submitted their cut-off points already from the pool of their submissions. It was like a vote. Over 100 submitted 200 and above as cut-off point, some submitted 180 and above, while a chunk submitted 160 and above,” JAMB Spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin told The Punch on how the cut-off mark was arrived at.
Emeka Nwajiuba, the education minister said JAMB and tertiary institutions could take advantage of the current COVID-19 situation and consider candidates with SSCE and other qualifying results of previous years to proceed with 2020/2021 admission process.
