The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given reasons for not admitting over 679 candidates, who sat for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) into any of the country’s tertiary institutions.
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JAMB in its 2020 policy document gave nine reasons the candidates were not admitted. According to the board, candidates who were particular about certain courses and not willing to accept any other were not admitted due to their rigidity. Others, it said, were not admitted due to wrong combination of O’ level subjects, low post UTME screening score, UTME-combination deficiency, non-acceptance of the offer, duplication of application, absence from post-UTME screening, mismatch of catchment institutions, and failure to upload O’ level five credits required subjects were not admitted.
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Over 1.8 million candidates seeking admission into higher institutions of study were said to have applied for 2019 UTME examination. Of the estimated figure, 679 out of 2,967 candidates who scored 300 and above, were not admitted. In the same vein, 222,684 of 433,445 candidates who scored 200 and above were also not admitted, with some 22,523 candidates out of 61, 405 who scored 250 and above also not offered admission.
Only 612,098, representing 33.7% were admitted, including 42,098 candidates admitted through direct entry while 59,667 candidates were absent and 16,586 engaged in exam malpractices.
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