The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will hold its 2015 Policy meeting on July 14
to determine cut-off marks for admission of candidates into tertiary
institutions. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Fabian
Benjamin, the board’s Public Relations Officer, and made available to newsmen
on Thursday in Lagos.
The 2015 Policy Meeting which
usually comes up with the cut-off point has been fixed for 14th July,
2015. ”This meeting defines the criteria for the year’s admissions into
higher institutions,’’ it said. The statement said that the cut-off points
are arrived at after extensive deliberations with vice-chancellors of universities,
provosts of colleges of education, rectors of polytechnics, monotechnics as
well as innovative enterprise institutions and other stakeholders.
It said that the meeting was usually
held after the schools would have completed the Computer Based tests (CBT). The
statement said that the CBT had assisted the board to fight against examination
malpractice within the nation’s examination system.
The statement said the CBT
initiative had helped to address the numerous challenges confronting the
conduct of public examination in the country. ” Today, the board has found
the magic wand.
”This year’s examination was one of
the most successfully conducted exercises by the board. “The exercise took
place for over two weeks in 389 centres in Nigeria, Ghana, Republic of Cameroon
and the United Kingdom,’’ he said.
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