UTME 2025: JAMB and Institutions Set to Decide Admission Cut-Off Marks This Monday!
To determine the “cut-off point” for admissions from the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the chiefs of all university polytechnics and colleges of education, both public and private, gather annually for the JAMB Admission Policy conference.
The leaders of all Nigerian postsecondary institutions will meet with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday (tomorrow) to determine the National Minimum Tolerable UTME Score (NTMUS), also referred to as “cut-off points,” for the 2025 admissions process.
To determine the “cut-off point” for admissions from the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the chiefs of all university polytechnics and colleges of education, both public and private, gather annually for the JAMB Admission Policy conference.
An annual computer-based test (CBT), the UTME is a requirement for applicants to Nigerian postsecondary educational institutions. For each of the four disciplines that candidates take the UTME in, the highest possible score is between 400 and 100. Cut-off points
The cut-off points vary from institution to institution. Some colleges set UTME scores as low as 100 or 120, while others set them as high as 200.
All of the schools, however, concur on a nationwide minimum score that a candidate must receive in order to be considered for admission to any postsecondary institution.
The NTMUS for institutions of education and polytechnics was 100 and 140, respectively, last year.
How to set cut-off points
Each of the higher education institutions has informed JAMB of their own recommended cut-off points.
They will all agree at the meeting on a national minimum that no institution can go below. The heads of the institutions present typically vote to decide which points to adopt.
Any institution would have to raise its cutoff point if it was set below the mutually agreed-upon threshold.
At the meeting last year, Professor Tahir Mamman, who was then the Minister of Education, ordered schools not to accept applicants who were younger than 18. Following objections from the heads of the institutions in attendance, he reversed the decision. He then requested that 16 be applied to admissions in 2024 and 18 in the years that followed.
However, Tunji Alausa, the newly appointed education minister, requested that the minimum age for admittance be set at 16 after Mr. Mamman was ousted from office in October.
Issues
Some Nigerians have criticized the present admissions process, which JAMB primarily oversees through its Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), arguing that each institution ought to be free to administer its own entrance exam and establish its own policies.
However, JAMB stated that it does not influence the admissions process, pointing out that the universities make the final admissions decisions.
Each institution has administrative access to the CAPS, which ranks candidates according to their O-level, UTME, and Post-UTME scores, as well as other requirements specified by the individual schools to which they applied, according to JAMB’s explanation.
In order to eliminate favoritism in the admissions process, CAPS makes sure that universities admit highly qualified applicants before others, according to Professor Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, who spoke at last year’s policy conference.
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