Zeeknow3245:

If You can rightly tell me what I said is wrong tell me? constructive Criticism is what I learned from this thread. I can outrightly tell you that you're a baby a big one. Being young does not mean you must be ignorant and this is why we have wrong Leaders in Nigeria. Incase you don't know being old in doesn't mean you will be smart. Remember Ignorant people grow old too.
I have been in Nairaland just one year and boy you don't know what I have learnt. I have been able to acquire new skills, attend workshop, read Journals and communicated with Lecturers, Doctors on Nairaland with more than two decades experience. So when I am talking, I am not talking in unsubstantiated claims but facts.
Some of you think I hate medicine?. Infact I respect them. I am worried.
You think I am happy when I see Doctors strike for unpaid salaries and dilapidated structures?
When I know we have less than hundred thousand registered Doctors in Nigeria with a population of over 150 million people and over half of those people registered are out of Nigeria,retired or not practising.
Where we have people roaming mad in the street and we have less than a thousand registered Psychiatrist to handle the cases and I shouldn't be worried?
Grow up Bro you are better than these. I can bet myballs you are not med school and even if you are probably 200 level. Your anger shows it. So much enthusiasm you have which I like but mind how you do then learn to read with an open mind.

Bros calm down.
Na chest beating you just enter so oh...

©️2021.

OBGEE:


You talk very naive and like an amateur.
Like you rightly said, you are very young. You have no experience nor in any position to actually reply the young man that needed words of encouragement.
Let's be guided and avoid ITK.
And lastly put some respect on dentistry.

The guy explained himself to the best of his ability.If there's anywhere he mis-yarned, kindly correct him with respect.

Not only did you insult him, you also didn't contribute to the discourse.

©️2021.

samuelpeters:

Bros calm down.
Na chest beating you just enter so oh...

©️2021.

Guy you dey beef me na. You na my boss na

samuelpeters:

The guy explained himself to the best of his ability.If there's anywhere he mis-yarned, kindly correct him with respect.

Not only did you insult him, you also didn't contribute to the discourse.

©️2021.

Abeg who be this?

Zeeknow3245:

If You can rightly tell me what I said is wrong tell me? constructive Criticism is what I learned from this thread. I can outrightly tell you that you're a baby a big one. Being young does not mean you must be ignorant and this is why we have wrong Leaders in Nigeria. Incase you don't know being old in doesn't mean you will be smart. Remember Ignorant people grow old too.
I have been in Nairaland just one year and boy you don't know what I have learnt. I have been able to acquire new skills, attend workshop, read Journals and communicated with Lecturers, Doctors on Nairaland with more than two decades experience. So when I am talking, I am not talking in unsubstantiated claims but facts.
Some of you think I hate medicine?. Infact I respect them. I am worried.
You think I am happy when I see Doctors strike for unpaid salaries and dilapidated structures?
When I know we have less than hundred thousand registered Doctors in Nigeria with a population of over 150 million people and over half of those people registered are out of Nigeria,retired or not practising.
Where we have people roaming mad in the street and we have less than a thousand registered Psychiatrist to handle the cases and I shouldn't be worried?
Grow up Bro you are better than these. I can bet myballs you are not med school and even if you are probably 200 level. Your anger shows it. So much enthusiasm you have which I like but mind how you do then learn to read with an open mind.

In conclusion,....Be humble....Sit down....

OBGEE:


Who be this?

Respect people on here alright.
I don't have any problem with you.

©️2021

OBGEE:

In conclusion,....Be humble....Sit down....

Which one is humility? Get the Bleep of my mention nitwit

Good afternoon everyone, please what's Uniben Merit and Catchment for 2020/2021?


Is the catchment a difference of -3 or -2?

Uniben Medics please help me with this

Benji2018:
Good afternoon everyone, please what's Uniben Merit and Catchment for 2020/2021?


Is the catchment a difference of -3 or -2?

Uniben Medics please help me with this

Yes, you're right. Merit is 78, catchment is 75 or 76.

Mitochondria96:
Great medics in the house I greet you all, happy new year.. please I need your advice, am 25 years old, I will be enrolling for jamb this year, aspirant of mbbs though..I need guidelines on how to score very high in utme/ post utme pls help me out, am willing and ready to pay the price no matter how Herculean the task maybe.. I have even devise my personal time table for intense studying, 18hrs per day.. All I need is guidelines from experienced persons to put me through, your encouragement is also needed because I have had terrible discouragements from my peers.. Family issues made me waste years at home, my father was suffering from stroke it affected my education so bad, plus other factors that I wouldn't like to disclose, help a brother, God bless you all...

You are 25 now if you get Medicine this year by 31 you will be a doctor, time is still by your side don't let anyone deceive you,being a doctor at 31 is a great achievement boss...!

Mitochondria96:


Thank you sir I appreciate...As regards my timetable it really work for me, I finish p.n okeke physics textbook in 2days it even made understand physics better than ever..I do take little breaks like 30minutes for daydreaming...You see sir, reason why am I want to be a doctor is because of the sickness that tormented my dad for 18yrs, he had stroke back then we were poor as church rats, no good treatment for him, nobody came to his rescue even his blood brother living next door to us never even for one day came to check on him when he was deteriorating with this sickness, I was helpless wishing I were a doctor to save him from excruciating pains he encounters on daily basis even at night we can't sleep well because of his cry for help..The stroke reached its climax and affected his brain, his vision ie eyes etc to cut the story short I watched him died a helpless man..And I vowed to be a doctor no matter what..

Do you know Physiotherapist handle stroke too...? Inshort a physiotherapist will handle stroke better than a Gen practioner,so if you want to help people with stroke you can still try out studying PHYSIOTHERAPY

Froshchuksswart:



You are 25 now if you get Medicine this year by 31 you will be a doctor, time is still by your side don't let anyone deceive you,being a doctor at 31 is a great achievement boss...!

Bruv i tire for all the many many stories oo. The only problem here is ASUU kpalaver and that's if he's attending a fed uni.

Froshchuksswart:



Do you know Physiotherapist handle stroke too...? Inshort a physiotherapist will handle stroke better than a Gen practioner,so if you want to help people with stroke you can still try out studying PHYSIOTHERAPY

This guy rest na..Are you Medicine's inhibitor?

MrEgghead:
Yes, you're right. Merit is 78, catchment is 75 or 76.

Wow, I was given the info that catchment is 76-77


I thought Catchment = Merit - 3

Please what's the cut off of MBBSMED for Direct Entry UNIBEN

Benji2018:

Wow, I was given the info that catchment is 76-77

I thought Catchment = Merit - 3

i thought uniben mbbs merit is 74 or 75

Benji2018:


Wow, I was given the info that catchment is 76-77


I thought Catchment = Merit - 3

The catchment isn't always static.


It depends on the number of persons who're a few points short of the Merit cut.

Benji2018:
Please what's the cut off of MBBSMED for Direct Entry UNIBEN

Both DE Exam and first degree result is considered.

So you won't necessarily get a cut off.

Xandre:
The catchment isn't always static.


It depends on the number of persons who're a few points short of the Merit cut.

Wow wow wow .... Okay, Sir is there anyway I can contact on you on Whatsapp.. ?�

Xandre:
The catchment isn't always static.


It depends on the number of persons who're a few points short of the Merit cut.

What if the number of persons few point short are up to 100 ?

Xandre:
The catchment isn't always static.


It depends on the number of persons who're a few points short of the Merit cut.

What if the number of persons few point short are up to 100?

wizi44:
i thought uniben mbbs merit is 74 or 75

That was last set, this upcoming set cut off is 78 �, it's too high Sha..

.
74/75 makes sense because thats a good score

The funny thing is that guys with 75 now would be thrown to biochemistry ��

Imagine a candidate who struggled to score 280/80 in his UTME and PUTME respectively and had an aggregate of 75 and he wasn't considered even at catchment... That's painful ��


I hope the 75+ would be given ❤️

Amen

Benji2018:


What if the number of persons few point short are up to 100?

Then the catchment cut off will increase proportionately.

Benji2018:



Wow wow wow .... Okay, Sir is there anyway I can contact on you on Whatsapp.. ?�

Let me have yours Sir.

Xandre:
Let me have yours Sir.

08144975288

Benji2018:


What if the number of persons few point short are up to 100 ?

Let me explain admission process so others will understand too.

This will be lengthy kind of...
You can ask me if you are confused.

We have Merit 45%, catchment 35% and Educational Less developed states (ELDs)20%.
But what we really see in our universities are
Merit:40%.
Catchment:30%.
ELDs:20%.
University discretion:10%.

I will use a department with carrying capacity of 100, so it would be easy to understand.

After UTME and post-UTME and all applicants average have been considered.

1. First stage: The university will pick from the HIGHEST SCORE till it gets to the 45th applicant; Then others are now CUTOFF from there( that is how we get our cutoff-mark).These applicants are selected irrespective of their region or tribe.
Example: if the 45th person has a score of 75. It means others were cut off from 75. So Merit cutoff-mark for that course will be 75.

2. 2nd stage: is to select catchment area; The university will now group all applicants according to their state of origin. To see how close an applicant's state of origin falls into the university catchment area. The 35 slots will now be divided equally to each state that falls under the catchment area.
Example: A university has only 5 states that fall under her catchment area, the university will allocate 7 slots for each state.
So the university will now select the HIGHEST score from that STATE OF ORIGIN till it gets to the 7th person and others are cuttoff from that State(catchment cut off).
That is how the university will do for each state that falls under her catchment.
That is the reason why catchment cut off is always lower than Merit.
Example: if an applicant scored 74, he will be cutoff from merit(75) but will be considered in catchment ( since others from his state of origin with 75+ must have been selected on Merit already). It will continue until the 7th person that has say 72, which becomes the catchment cutoff-mark for that state.

3. Stage 3: ELDs; The university, having grouped all applicants according to their state of origins, will now select states that are educational disadvantaged, and select from the HIGHEST till the number they want and Cut off others.

That is how a University gets her Merit cutoff, Catchment cutoff and ELDs cutoff marks.
If you are very close to those in a university's admission office;
You will see all catchment cutoff-mark according to each state and ELDs according to each state.

Some universities join all these stages together and release it as their Merit/First batch admission List.

4. Exceptions: Some departments may not get much applicants to select from;
The university may announce that those that fall short of their cutoff-mark should apply to other departments.
While some universities will not announce, they will do it at their discretion.
In all; all these processes will start coming in from 2nd batch, the university starts pushing applicants to some funny departments. Example: from Medicine to fishery.

Those will connections will use it and still get their dream course. Top officials in the university and beyond e.g. JAMB also have slots.
All these ones fall under the 10% University discretion.

It will continue like that( 2nd batch,3rd batch and so on) until the carrying capacity of the department is exhausted.

So if you don't have connections or money, your best bet is to make sure you score as high as possible. Because from 2nd batch; it is at the university discretion where someone with 50 will get Medicine while you with 71 will be pushed to zoology or lose admission entirely.

NB: I used a federal University to explain it.
For state university, Merit is still the same with Federal.
Catchment area is all LGAs of the state.
ELDs are LGAs that are not really Educationally sound.

I believe we now understand how a University's admission process works.

©️2021.

Benji2018:



081288

You can modify as I've messaged you already.

samuelpeters:

Let me explain admission process so others will understand too.

This will be lengthy kind of...
You can ask me if you are confused.

We have Merit 45%, catchment 35% and Educational Less developed states (ELDs)20%.
But what we really see in our universities are
Merit:40%.
Catchment:30%.
ELDs:20%.
University discretion:10%.

I will use a department with carrying capacity of 100, so it would be easy to understand.

After UTME and post-UTME and all applicants average have been considered.

1. First stage: The university will pick from the HIGHEST SCORE till it gets to the 45th applicant; Then others are now CUTOFF from there( that is how we get our cutoff-mark).These applicants are selected irrespective of their region or tribe.
Example: if the 45th person has a score of 75. It means others were cut off from 75. So Merit cutoff-mark for that course will be 75.

2. 2nd stage: is to select catchment area; The university will now group all applicants according to their state of origin. To see how close an applicant's state of origin falls into the university catchment area. The 35 slots will now be divided equally to each state that falls under the catchment area.
Example: A university has only 5 states that fall under her catchment area, the university will allocate 7 slots for each state.
So the university will now select the HIGHEST score from that STATE OF ORIGIN till it gets to the 7th person and others are cuttoff from that State(catchment cut off).
That is how the university will do for each state that falls under her catchment.
That is the reason why catchment cut off is always lower than Merit.
Example: if an applicant scored 74, he will be cutoff from merit(75) but will be considered in catchment ( since others from his state of origin with 75+ must have been selected on Merit already). It will continue until the 7th person that has say 72, which becomes the catchment cutoff-mark for that state.

3. Stage 3: ELDs; The university, having grouped all applicants according to their state of origins, will now select states that are educational disadvantaged, and select from the HIGHEST till the number they want and Cut off others.

That is how a University gets her Merit cutoff, Catchment cutoff and ELDs cutoff marks.
If you are very close to those in a university's admission office;
You will see all catchment cutoff-mark according to each state and ELDs according to each state.

Some universities join all these stages together and release it as their Merit/First batch admission List.

4. Exceptions: Some departments may not get much applicants to select from;
The university may announce that those that fall short of their cutoff-mark should apply to other departments.
While some universities will not announce, they will do it at their discretion.
In all; all these processes will start coming in from 2nd batch, the university starts pushing applicants to some funny departments. Example: from Medicine to fishery.

Those will connections will use it and still get their dream course. Top officials in the university and beyond e.g. JAMB also have slots.
All these ones fall under the 10% University discretion.

It will continue like that( 2nd batch,3rd batch and so on) until the carrying capacity of the department is exhausted.

So if you don't have connections or money, your best bet is to make sure you score as high as possible. Because from 2nd batch; it is at the university discretion where someone with 50 will get Medicine while you with 71 will be pushed to zoology or lose admission entirely.

NB: I used a federal University to explain it.
For state university, Merit is still the same with Federal.
Catchment area is all LGAs of the state.
ELDs are LGAs that are not really Educationally sound.

I believe we now understand how a University's admission process works.

©️2021.

Tell that to the north who give undue advantage to their Citizens. Even in the south here we are too Political and it is becoming too terrible. I read your post and it is 100% correct on paper. In reality I give it 30%.

samuelpeters:

Let me explain admission process so others will understand too.

This will be lengthy kind of...
You can ask me if you are confused.

We have Merit 45%, catchment 35% and Educational Less developed states (ELDs)20%.
But what we really see in our universities are
Merit:40%.
Catchment:30%.
ELDs:20%.
University discretion:10%.

I will use a department with carrying capacity of 100, so it would be easy to understand.

After UTME and post-UTME and all applicants average have been considered.

1. First stage: The university will pick from the HIGHEST SCORE till it gets to the 45th applicant; Then others are now CUTOFF from there( that is how we get our cutoff-mark).These applicants are selected irrespective of their region or tribe.
Example: if the 45th person has a score of 75. It means others were cut off from 75. So Merit cutoff-mark for that course will be 75.

2. 2nd stage: is to select catchment area; The university will now group all applicants according to their state of origin. To see how close an applicant's state of origin falls into the university catchment area. The 35 slots will now be divided equally to each state that falls under the catchment area.
Example: A university has only 5 states that fall under her catchment area, the university will allocate 7 slots for each state.
So the university will now select the HIGHEST score from that STATE OF ORIGIN till it gets to the 7th person and others are cuttoff from that State(catchment cut off).
That is how the university will do for each state that falls under her catchment.
That is the reason why catchment cut off is always lower than Merit.
Example: if an applicant scored 74, he will be cutoff from merit(75) but will be considered in catchment ( since others from his state of origin with 75+ must have been selected on Merit already). It will continue until the 7th person that has say 72, which becomes the catchment cutoff-mark for that state.

3. Stage 3: ELDs; The university, having grouped all applicants according to their state of origins, will now select states that are educational disadvantaged, and select from the HIGHEST till the number they want and Cut off others.

That is how a University gets her Merit cutoff, Catchment cutoff and ELDs cutoff marks.
If you are very close to those in a university's admission office;
You will see all catchment cutoff-mark according to each state and ELDs according to each state.

Some universities join all these stages together and release it as their Merit/First batch admission List.

4. Exceptions: Some departments may not get much applicants to select from;
The university may announce that those that fall short of their cutoff-mark should apply to other departments.
While some universities will not announce, they will do it at their discretion.
In all; all these processes will start coming in from 2nd batch, the university starts pushing applicants to some funny departments. Example: from Medicine to fishery.

Those will connections will use it and still get their dream course. Top officials in the university and beyond e.g. JAMB also have slots.
All these ones fall under the 10% University discretion.

It will continue like that( 2nd batch,3rd batch and so on) until the carrying capacity of the department is exhausted.

So if you don't have connections or money, your best bet is to make sure you score as high as possible. Because from 2nd batch; it is at the university discretion where someone with 50 will get Medicine while you with 71 will be pushed to zoology or lose admission entirely.

NB: I used a federal University to explain it.
For state university, Merit is still the same with Federal.
Catchment area is all LGAs of the state.
ELDs are LGAs that are not really Educationally sound.

I believe we now understand how a University's admission process works.

©️2021.

On paper this is how it ought to be, but some schools still choose to do their village thing as regards admission process.

For example ABU and most northern university admit the highest person per state as their merit list, this is to the disadvantage of non catchment area states.

Merit ought to be irrespective of state but only the highest from a state is admitted as merit list.

The policy is so unfair.

However, thanks for your sumission, it was really explanatory.

ejehijustice:
On paper this is how it ought to be, but some schools still choose to do their village thing as regards admission process.

For example ABU and most northern university admit the highest person per state as their merit list, this is to the disadvantage of non catchment area states.

Merit ought to be irrespective of state but only the highest from a state is admitted as merit list.

The policy is so unfair.

However, thanks for your sumission, it was really explanatory.

You are not getting the point.
This is not about on paper.

Most universities combined those stages and call it merit list or first batch/primary list.
I am talking from experience bro.

Merit is the highest applicant irrespective of state of origin to the number they want, then CUTOFF others, same with Catchment and ELDs.
Maybe those people with highest score are from some particular state of origin.

Let me tell you this too;
1. An applicant from a university's catchment area and his/her state is also ELDs has 100% chance of gaining admission.
2. An applicant from university's catchment area has 80% Chance of gaining admission.
3. An applicant who is not from a university's catchment area but is under ELDs has 65% chance.
4. An applicant who is not from a university's catchment and whose state is not ELD has 45% chance.

Let me use ABU as an example;
ABU has all northern states as her Catchment area and all these states are also ELDs.

An applicant from any of those northern states, has a 45+35+30=100% Chance of admission.

An applicant from the SE/SW has only 45% chance of admission. Because they ain't ELDs and their states are not in ABU's catchment area.

An Applicant from SS aside Rivers,Edo and Delta has 65% while those states I listed has 45%.
This is how it works!

MERIT/PRIMARY LIST/FIRST BATCH IS STRICTLY MONITORED BY JAMB.
All universities in Nigeria have a Merit list/primary/first batch that is 98-99.9% Unadulterated.

From 2nd batch, Anything can happen. JAMB doesn't care too... So if you don't make it in first batch, it means you ain't qualifed enough. So anything you see from 2nd batch is non of your business. Even if you take it to court, you will lose!

People need to understand this admission process, know their chances of admission, before applying to a University so they don't lose out with a small margin.
Then start disturbing social media.

©️2021.

samuelpeters:

You are not getting the point.
This is not about on paper.

Most universities combined those stages and call it merit list or first batch/primary list.
I am talking from experience bro.

Merit is the highest applicant irrespective of state of origin to the number they want, then CUTOFF others, same with Catchment and ELDs.
Maybe those people with highest score are from some particular state of origin.

Let me tell you this too;
1. An applicant from a university's catchment area and his/her state is also ELDs has 100% chance of gaining admission.
2. An applicant from university's catchment area has 80% Chance of gaining admission.
3. An applicant who is not from a university's catchment area but is under ELDs has 65% chance.
4. An applicant who is not from a university's catchment and whose state is not ELD has 45% chance.

Let me use ABU as an example;
ABU has all northern states as her Catchment area and all these states are also ELDs.

An applicant from any of those northern states, has a 45+35+30=100% Chance of admission.

An applicant from the SE/SW has only 45% chance of admission. Because they ain't ELDs and their states are not in ABU's catchment area.

An Applicant from SS aside Rivers,Edo and Delta has 65% while those states I listed has 45%.
This is how it works!

MERIT/PRIMARY LIST/FIRST BATCH IS STRICTLY MONITORED BY JAMB.
All universities in Nigeria have a Merit list/primary/first batch that is 98-99.9% Unadulterated.

From 2nd batch, Anything can happen. JAMB doesn't care too... So if you don't make it in first batch, it means you ain't qualifed enough. So anything you see from 2nd batch is non of your business. Even if you take it to court, you will lose!

People need to understand this admission process, know their chances of admission, before applying to a University so they don't lose out with a small margin.
Then start disturbing social media.

©️2021.

Bros is these things applicable to state Universities? Or they are being ignored?

Zeeknow3245:

Tell that to the north who give undue advantage to their Citizens. Even in the south here we are too Political and it is becoming too terrible. I read your post and it is 100% correct on paper. In reality I give it 30%.

Hahahaha!
It is 99%(nothing is 100%)correct on paper and in real life.

The north has an advantage because they are ELDs.
Every university First batch is monitored strictly by JAMB before approval. But from 2nd batch,JAMB will just be uploading the list in their data base.

A SW/SE/SS person that apply for Medicine at ABU has only 45% chance of that admission. If he is not among the first 45 with the highest score, he has lost it.
This is not tribalism or whatever!
but a Northern person that applies to UNILAG,has a 65% chance which he will surely get. Because when UNILAG will start allocating slot for ELDs, he may be among the lucky ones from his state of origin.

The problem with the South is that; we too de go school. Which makes the competition so high.
So an Igbo person would rather apply to schools in the SE so that their chances will be high,same with SW and SS.

Only UI has all 36 states as her catchment area. Which means; those from SW has 80%, SE has 80% chance, SS has 80% while those from North has 100% chance to school in the same UI
North ehh...

When it comes to Merit/First batch/Primary list, the most important factor is YOUR STATE OF ORIGIN for Federal and LGA for state universities. Not your name or whatever. That is the rule!

From 2nd batch, state of origin/LGA, name, connections,money, begging and other things will now enter

So bro, this is how it is real life.
The game of admission starts from 2nd batch. 1st batch is always small so that they will have more space to do their runs from 2nd batch upwards.

©️2021.