Following the completion of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) 2024, the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has explained that the board does not fix the ‘cut-off mark’.
In its weekly bulletin on Monday, July 29, obtained by Naturenex, JAMB said the ‘cut-off mark’ “should, at any rate, be rightly referred to as the “minimum tolerable admission score”.
‘JAMB doesn’t fix cut-off marks’, Oloyede speaks
JAMB said contrary to what is being insinuated in some quarters, it is not responsible for fixing the ‘cut-off mark’.
Oloyede said the explanation became necessary to correct “the erroneous impression” that minimum tolerable admission scores for respective institutions were decided by JAMB saying it is the responsibility of the tertiary institutions themselves to decide their respective institutional minimum tolerable admission score.
Furthermore, the JAMB boss stated that what was arrived at policy meetings were benchmark national minimum tolerable admission scores for admission into the nation’s tertiary institutions.
In the same vein, the former vice-chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) stated that it is erroneous for parents or candidates to make claims of meeting the minimum tolerable score and as such should be given automatic admission.
