With effect from this year (2017), candidates awaiting results would no longer be eligible to apply for the Universities Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, said in Abuja on Tuesday.

The organisation also said it had concluded all restructuring and reforms and is now set to commence the sale of its application document in March.

The restructuring exercise will now allow for only one choice of public university in which new registration platform will now be first choice, second choice, third choice and fourth choice and not most preferred, preferred choice.

A statement by the spokesperson of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the agency had taken time to add value to the services it have been offering to Nigerians for over three decades.

According to him, the restructuring was aimed at expanding the opportunities available to candidates since almost all the public universities do not consider candidates on the second choice list because they hardly exhaust their first choice.

He said, “We have designed a Central Admissions Processing System where the Board will interface with the institutions and ensure the compliance of this reform. The summary is that no candidate will be admitted with awaiting result.

Candidates and their parents are also to note that JAMB has restructured the registration platform to allow for only one choice of public university. The new registration platform will now be first choice, second choice, third choice and fourth choice and not most preferred, preferred etc as it was.

“Candidates’ first choice can be a College, University, Innovative Enterprises Institutions or Polytechnic/Monotechnic. However, if a candidate makes a Public University his first choice, he will not have any public University to choose for second, third and fourth choice.

He will have on the remaining three choices, a College, Polytechnic, Private University and IEI’S. However, candidates for the 2017 UTME can now select National Certificate in Education (College) or National Diploma (Polytechnic/Monotechnic) as their first choice up to third choice and the fourth IEI. They can select the IEI (Innovative Enterprise Institution, ND) as their first choice up to the fourth choice, but can only pick a public university once.”

http://www.kikiotolu.com/2017/02/utme-jamb-scraps-awaiting-results.html

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Useless news

I hope they'd close the registration after WAEC and NECO have released all their results for this year in order not to keep those graduating out of secondary school waiting for next year.

This is a really wrong move.
How would you cancel awaiting result? Meaning Secondary School students can't write JAMB. The Director of JAMB needs his brain checked.

SO PEOPLE STILL WRITE THE USELESS JAMB

In as much as we keep on placing my h emphasis on certificates rather than applied knowledge, jamb problem of admission racketeering will continue to persist.

Jamb has decided to frustrate students. This is unfair. Dunno why Nigeria education system is just so poor.

God go punish jamb oooh

The registrar of JAMB dey mad

This will reduce the number of people who'll write the exam

I don't care. The biggest mistake was when post utme was scrapped!

It has merits and demerits

Ok

let me comment 1st... later

Some of these awaiting result done actually turn up good when it comes out and besides, JAMB is not the only way

Why dem still dey leave P.UTME na na that one dem suppose scrap gan gan!!

Good

Stay extra year for house learning handwork simpu

this utter nonsense you expect young brains to stay at home one whole year.. for what.. this jamb guys must be crazy... old foolz

THIS ONE IS STRONG OOOO

This is new JAMB registrar na wa

Na dem go give me money to go the private university? I dont know why they are making it hard for one getting admission into our schools.Na so e hard for foreign schools?

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This is a really wrong move.
How would you cancel awaiting result? Meaning Secondary School students can't write JAMB. The Director of JAMB needs his brain checked.

xheck ur teeth may be is black for indiam pls

Sincerely speaking, JAMB did right to have scrap 'Awaiting Result'
Make ur papers and write ur exams and God helping you, you pass real good.

wickedness of d highest oda

I was coming here with speed to blame Jonathan. But I understood the thread.

This is a very useless idea please calm down and read.
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The scrapping away of Post UTME and giving marks to waec affected the lives of many candidates with multiple results.
some scored high in Jamb last year but waec pushed them away.
Many are crying to write a better waec this year since Post UTME is gone.
And the useless Jamb wants to tell them to wait another year.
Any person that reads should pass this development is not welcomed. It is useless to those that had a bad waec last year and want to enter this year
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