Dominusprime, you're needed here.....

I doff my hat for you o. You Sabi book but na the bad educational system naim dey block your way. But like seriously, weytin go make me write jamb more than once, I dey mad. See if buhari can make it without certificate, den weytin fit stop me?

uni Boko can solve yr problem

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eendy:
Go to a less competitive school like DELSUTH ...
Their medicine is really really good and once you pass you have a good chance of getting admitted ... Those schools you chose are more political and tribal in giving admission to medicine and surgery.

Medicine and other courses in Unilag are 100% on merit and the process is transparent. You can't meet the cut off and be denied admission.

Ademola47:
Hello Nairalenders,

Please, I need your advice experienced medicine graduates, students and consultants.

I am a 19-year-old medicine (MBBS) aspirant. I have written three jamb and MBBS admission has not come my way.

I applied twice in ui and once in Unilag.
For the unilag admission, I was 11 marks below the cut off mark in 2017.

In 2018, I was 2 marks below the cut off mark in ui.
This year, my aggregate is relatively low.

Now, I need advice on:
1. How to score 340+ in the forthcoming (2020) utme.
2. How to re strategize
3. How to eliminate boredom while reading/preparing.

4. Materials/books I can prepare with.

Also, I'll be glad to learn from your experience.

Thanks in anticipation.


PS: My utme score has always been between 280-318

Hey Sir/ma,
Judging from your write-up above, I am sure you will gain admission to study Medicine and Surgery come 2020. From my little experience, you ll need to work a bit harder.

Answer to Question (1)A : You ll need to evaluate your study materials. You can't expect to get 300+ in Jamb if your study textbook is Essential Physics for example. You will need textbooks like Okeke, Nelkon and Parker, One comprehensive Physics which I can't remember, etc.
B: You need to increase your study hours too. Read for longer periods. Be motivated. Just try. You have written Jamb twice so you know what it takes. Just sit down and read more. Keep reading. Honestly, it would pay off.

(2) While preparing for my 2nd JAMB in 2013(I knew I had to do something different from my 1st to get admission to study medicine at U I.
So I registered at the State library. I would leave home with my siblings who were in secondary school at that time and get to the library as early as 8:30am. I had a special corner. I would just sit my a*s down and read. All the books I needed were available at the library. I made a couple of friends whom I shared ideas and knowledge together with. I would say that was one of the best decisions of my life. You could try that too.
(3) The answer to this could be seen in answer(2) above. I made friends at the Library. Often times when I was bored, I would go see my guys and we would talk about a couple of interesting topics. After about some minutes, I ll just get back to my books. However, there a couple of days where after getting to the Library early, I would have to leave after about an hour cos I wouldn't just be in the mood to read. That happened like 1 out of 20days.

(4) I last did Jamb in 2013 so I really don't know if there are better textbooks. Ask your guys who got very high scores. You can check the Jamb curriculum or something too.


P:S Do not let anyone discourage you. You will get in this time. I had a similar experience only that I wrote that twice. I was really determined. Got a low score in my 1st Jamb, chose UNN as 1st and 2nd choice. Didn't get admitted. I was like 'no wahala'
Sat my as* down the 2nd time, read well and had good friends. Chose U.I as 1st choice and Ilorin as 2nd choice. Got admitted to both schools and then accepted U.I's admission.

Finished medical school from U.I this year; July(Still waiting for induction). Everything to the Glory of God.


You should also be aware that Students in the College of medicine in U.I now have to pay quite a lot yearly throughout their study years. We paid #85,000 in 2018, #100,000 in 2019. 2020 could be #150,000 or more. So, make sure you are financially OK before coming to U.I


Cheers

Go and buy Basic Studies Form in Uniport...

If you do well which I trust you will, you’ll gain admission to study your Medicine and Surgery!

Ademola47:
Hello Nairalenders,

Please, I need your advice experienced medicine graduates, students and consultants.

I am a 19-year-old medicine (MBBS) aspirant. I have written three jamb and MBBS admission has not come my way.

I applied twice in ui and once in Unilag.
For the unilag admission, I was 11 marks below the cut off mark in 2017.

In 2018, I was 2 marks below the cut off mark in ui.
This year, my aggregate is relatively low.

Now, I need advice on:
1. How to score 340+ in the forthcoming (2020) utme.
2. How to re strategize
3. How to eliminate boredom while reading/preparing.

4. Materials/books I can prepare with.

Also, I'll be glad to learn from your experience.

Thanks in anticipation.


PS: My utme score has always been between 280-318

Alexaonfleek:
Put in for a less competitive University or look for one that is ur catchment area

Don't mind them
All of them want unilag
Nwanne if u are igbo pls and pls go back home
A frnd of mine wasted four years looking for unilag admission pls unibadan or wateva they call it ds days
Na im papa carry am go unn and now he's a civil engineer
QED

Ademola47:
Hello Nairalenders,

Please, I need your advice experienced medicine graduates, students and consultants.

I am a 19-year-old medicine (MBBS) aspirant. I have written three jamb and MBBS admission has not come my way.

I applied twice in ui and once in Unilag.
For the unilag admission, I was 11 marks below the cut off mark in 2017.

In 2018, I was 2 marks below the cut off mark in ui.
This year, my aggregate is relatively low.

Now, I need advice on:
1. How to score 340+ in the forthcoming (2020) utme.
2. How to re strategize
3. How to eliminate boredom while reading/preparing.

4. Materials/books I can prepare with.

Also, I'll be glad to learn from your experience.

Thanks in anticipation.


PS: My utme score has always been between 280-318

To have scored between 280 and 318 in UTME and you couldn't secure admission, two things might have hindered you.

I will speak of the premier University, the first and the best.

1. For one to secure admission into a competitive course such as Medicine and Surgery in Ui, one needs virtually A1 and few B2 in SSCE.
2. Post-field UTME must be very good.

If you want to get medicine and surgery in Ui, there's an easy root but warrants effort. Three As in Cambridge A level or 2 As and B, you are good to go

Look for less competitive school. A state university that offers medicine.

Sonfethopia:


Why can't those marks get an Igbo admission in UNN

UNN claims they are a national university they just want every region to be represented in each dept

UI is meant to do that but they dont

40% of admission is by merit,40% for national representation and educational less develop

20% for staff kids n u recommendation

kkboy:
Instead of waiting for UTME, why not look for a good school that offers A Level.
Study for A levels and try both UTME and direct entry next year.
You will look for me to thank me.
But why Medicine?

Boss.....do u know how to calculate the aggregate for DE??

Bro as the lady advised, put in for microbiology, pharmacy or a lower course, or beta still, u choose ur state if the Uni there has good standard for the course.

This is what some of my guys did in UI:

Apply for a less competitive course in College of Medicine and then, switch to MBBS in 200 level. You'll first have to apply to courses like Physiology, Biochemistry and Dentistry. They are quite strict on which course you can switch from, but I'm very sure of Physiology. You can confirm for the other two. Secondly, you have to make a first class at the end of your first year.

With the trend of your scores, I want to believe making a first class in your first year should be a walk over for you.

Goodluck

Ademola47:
Hello Nairalenders,

Please, I need your advice experienced medicine graduates, students and consultants.

I am a 19-year-old medicine (MBBS) aspirant. I have written three jamb and MBBS admission has not come my way.

I applied twice in ui and once in Unilag.
For the unilag admission, I was 11 marks below the cut off mark in 2017.

In 2018, I was 2 marks below the cut off mark in ui.
This year, my aggregate is relatively low.

Now, I need advice on:
1. How to score 340+ in the forthcoming (2020) utme.
2. How to re strategize
3. How to eliminate boredom while reading/preparing.

4. Materials/books I can prepare with.

Also, I'll be glad to learn from your experience.

Thanks in anticipation.


PS: My utme score has always been between 280-318

Must you study medicine

Alexaonfleek:
Put in for a less competitive University or look for one that is ur catchment area

Make him dey look for unilag and UI. Go to any university that's accredited, whether state or federal then study hard

Pick Unilorin and choose Physiology or Anatomy. If you work hard you'll be able to cross to medicine after first year as top 10 in both Dept's would be allowed to cross.

My advise to you

1. Since Medicine is your calling and Jamb is not giving you what you need bro pick a similar course that is interwoven with Medicine e.g for Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, have something in common so bro, pick either Animal something something, Biotech or anything relating to lab then when your done if you want to do medicine then go for a professional course that will equivalent your grade to medicine.

Bolognese:
Go and buy Basic Studies Form in Uniport...

If you do well which I trust you will, you’ll gain admission to study your Medicine and Surgery!

Op, please don't try Uniport basic. I have s good number of friends who took that part. They ended up becoming anatomist. Getting MBBS through that root isn't a child's play. Like I did advised, go through Cambridge A Levels

Ademola47:
Hello Nairalenders,

Please, I need your advice experienced medicine graduates, students and consultants.

I am a 19-year-old medicine (MBBS) aspirant. I have written three jamb and MBBS admission has not come my way.

I applied twice in ui and once in Unilag.
For the unilag admission, I was 11 marks below the cut off mark in 2017.

In 2018, I was 2 marks below the cut off mark in ui.
This year, my aggregate is relatively low.

Now, I need advice on:
1. How to score 340+ in the forthcoming (2020) utme.
2. How to re strategize
3. How to eliminate boredom while reading/preparing.

4. Materials/books I can prepare with.

Also, I'll be glad to learn from your experience.

Thanks in anticipation.


PS: My utme score has always been between 280-318

Dear, apply to less competitive schools e.g your state University and increase you chances of getting admission. When it comes to Medicine/Surgery, the school is not very relevant. Many waste years fighting to the very top schools like Unilag, UI or OAU. And haven't explored less competitive places. Maybe the northern states, your state school, schools with pedigree for merit, or schools like University of Port Harcourt which still take students based on performance. At the end Medicine is long, tough rewarding And lifelong.

Hope this helps

mrvitalis:

First in my school then UNN it was very difficult to get medicine from secondary school
The advice i would give u is based on UNN alone don't know if its valid else where

1) take any coure u are offered ...study it for one year ( year one is a refresh of sec school ) ...us it to prepare for jamp ..your reading habit would increase

2) for UNN change your state of origin to south west or northern states because these state find it easy to enter UNN than igbo states ....if u are from zamfara 240 can get u medicine in UNN , if u are from Ogun 270 can get u

But if u are from Enugu ,Imo or anambra 320 cant even guarantee u medicine


So u can change ur state of origin when u get in u change it back

OP, follow this advice.

That was what my room mate did while we were in UNN.

He was already in third year studying biochemistry but wanted to study medicine by all means.

So he applied for jamb, put Gombe as state of origin. He didn't even score up to 250 in the jamb and his name came out in the first list.

medicine is 240 is my school.

mrvitalis:

UNN claims they are a national university they just want every region to be represented in each dept

UI is meant to do that but they dont

40% of admission is by merit,40% for national representation and educational less develop

20% for staff kids n u recommendation

Wow ,never knew.

My advice is for to put in for other school wit less challenges. Someone i know got admission last year into AAU to study medicine with 220 in utme. Remember that u ar gradually going n not time going.

here is my advice for you.

Since, you have been having an average if 280-314 in UTME it means you not a dull student, you should go back to UTME syllabus and identify areas yo have not mastered in your Use of English, Physics, Chemistry and biology especially. study all topics well and be sure to have about 95% mastery of the topics.

The most competitive universities as regards MBBS in Nigeria are UNILAG, UNILORIN, UI, OAU, LASU, UNN, UNIABUJA and others. if you still want to apply to any of the aforementioned, you must score very high targeting 360-380. I remember vividly that a girl had 394 score in UTME three years ago and could not meet the cut off of OAU MBBS.

YOU can choose less competitive universities to actualise your dream FUOYE, AKUNGBA, Ambrose Alli, Delsu, Unimaid, Unijos, Benue state University and others.

You can change your course to microbiology, biochemistry, medical rehabilitation, Physiotherapy etc.

Ademola47:
Hello Nairalenders,

Please, I need your advice experienced medicine graduates, students and consultants.

I am a 19-year-old medicine (MBBS) aspirant. I have written three jamb and MBBS admission has not come my way.

I applied twice in ui and once in Unilag.
For the unilag admission, I was 11 marks below the cut off mark in 2017.

In 2018, I was 2 marks below the cut off mark in ui.
This year, my aggregate is relatively low.

Now, I need advice on:
1. How to score 340+ in the forthcoming (2020) utme.
2. How to re strategize
3. How to eliminate boredom while reading/preparing.

4. Materials/books I can prepare with.

Also, I'll be glad to learn from your experience.

Thanks in anticipation.


PS: My utme score has always been between 280-318

Waaaooooo..... Well while you wait, you can apply for an apprenticeship at an hospital... Then for reading aspect YouTube videos from professionals is your friend.

Biglittlelois:



Dominusprime, you're needed here.....

@Ademola47 there are two ways to it and I'm speaking from experience. mine is a long story but I won't bore you with the details.
first you can keep trying Jamb. your scores have been very good and should get you into medicine but I think he problem might be from your Waec and postume scores. unilag now uses score points for As and Bs and Cs so if you don't have mostly As that might be a disadvantage. most aspirants already have the high jamb scores you have as well as the As so it's beyond that. I also want to believe that your waec is mostly As in the five core courses.
it then boils down to postume. aim for as high as possible and while at it you can use the cut off Mark to calculate what U need to score in postume to qualify. use your current waec score points and your least jamb score then factor in the required postume score to beat the cut off Mark.

the 2nd option is to take a less challenging course and on completion apply for DE. that's longer but surer. also aim for at least a 1st class or maybe a strong 2-1 as it's also competitive. this doesn't also stop you from writing jamb while studying that course. so you are more or less tackling it from both sides.

age should not be a barrier. at 19 u are still young enough. the only barriers would be if u want medicine enough to go through a first degree first, support from your family, and a few other things peculiar to your situation.

that's how much I can say for now...
I wish you all the best.

Keep on working hard bro, and don't give up on your dream. Goodluck

kkboy:
Instead of waiting for UTME, why not look for a good school that offers A Level.
Study for A levels and try both UTME and direct entry next year.
You will look for me to thank me.
But why Medicine?

Make your passion your profession and work becomes play

god doesnt exist just advice her chikina

Dozie32:
God will surely see you through.

mrvitalis:

First in my school then UNN it was very difficult to get medicine from secondary school
The advice i would give u is based on UNN alone don't know if its valid else where

1) take any coure u are offered ...study it for one year ( year one is a refresh of sec school ) ...us it to prepare for jamp ..your reading habit would increase

2) for UNN change your state of origin to south west or northern states because these state find it easy to enter UNN than igbo states ....if u are from zamfara 240 can get u medicine in UNN , if u are from Ogun 270 can get u

But if u are from Enugu ,Imo or anambra 320 cant even guarantee u medicine


So u can change ur state of origin when u get in u change it back

Shuuuu