The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has adopted the National Minimum Tolerable score for admission into universities at 140 and 100 for polytechnics and colleges of Education.
The JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede announced this at the 2023 Policy Meeting of Tertiary Institutions in Abuja on Saturday.
The JAMB Registrar said that all institutions must abide by the rule and must not go below the approved points.
He also said that every Tertiary Institution must ensure its own minimum standard especially as it relates to institutional screening and grading in the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, SSCE, which must not be lower than 50 marks.
Oloyede also said that institutions must not collect more than N2,000 as screening fees from candidates.
The JAMB Registrar also hinted that plans have reached advance stage to allow prospective candidates write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on their personnel devices , like mobile phones and computers.
He said the plan was birthed due to the rising cost of logistics in taking the UTME, which requires setting up of Computer based centres
Over one point five candidates sat for the 2023/24 UTME
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