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JAMB FIXES 160 AS CUTOFF MARK FOR 2020/2021 ADMISSIONS

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed the cut-off mark for admission into universities and other tertiary institutions in the country for the 2020/2021 academic session.


The Board said for any candidate to qualify for admission into any university, such a person must have scored 160 and above in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).


JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, announced this at the 2020 Policy Meeting on admission in Abuja on Tuesday.


Prof Oloyede also announced 120 as the cut-off mark for those seeking admission into polytechnics and colleges of education while that of innovative institutions was fixed at 100 and above.


He warned institutions against charging more than N2,000 in their admission screening exercise.


Speaking on the 2019 entry into varsities, the JAMB boss revealed that 612,557 candidates were offered admission.


Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who presided over the meeting, declared that the commencement of admission for the 2020/2021 academic session would begin in August.


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