JAMB announces 2019/2020 admission allocation procedures and deadlines for public and private varsities in Nigeria

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have begun the processes of placement of candidates, who passed the just concluded JAMB examination into all tiers of the tertiary institutions, for the 2019/2020 academic session in the country.

JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known on Sunday in Lagos in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
According Dr Benjamin, all stakeholders during a policy meeting in June 11, at Gbongan, Osun State, are in agreement with the period slated for the admission processes.

“The board has commenced the processes for admission for the 2019/2020 academic session in earnest.
“The first choice admission for public universities commenced from august 21 and will end on November 16.
“For private universities, it will be from august 21, 2019, to February 15, 2020.
“The second choice admission for public universities will be from November 17 to December 17, 2019,” he said.

Dr Benjamin pointed out to NAN that the projection for 2019, as far as the board is concern was to ensure that, candidates are allocated all available spot, unlike in 2018, when more than 500,000 spots were unutilised in all tertiary institutions across the country.

He said this move was contrary to the news making the rounds that there were no access to tertiary institutions, with about 60 percents of available spots unutilised.

Furthermore, the JAMB spokesperson added that the attention of the board, has been drawn to reports from some quarters against the principle of transformation of score undertaken by the board.

According to him, these reports are untrue and misleading and are due to lack of accurate information and or ignorance.

“In every selection examination, marks of candidates are obtained as raw scores and the processed into usable scores.
“What this means is that, if, for instance, jamb examines about two million candidates in 23 subjects, it is only natural that you normalise these scores so that the candidates be rated on the same scale.

“In the process of normalising these scores, candidates who have scored zero in a particular subject can also have a value of a mark which may not be up to 20.
“In doing this, the psychometric formula globally used by all examination bodies gives even zero a value,” he said.

Dr Benjamin also pointed out that score transformation is not peculiar to JAMB.
According to him, it is done in countries such as India, Kenya, and United Kingdom.

“The natural thing to do by anyone who does not know how this is carried out is to research about what normalisation means.
“In any case, in the course of transforming the worth of any candidate’s score, results are not lost.
“If the raw score indicates that a candidate has come on top in an examination, after the normalisation process, the candidate’s position will remain intact”.
(NAN)

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