Igbochief001:
Nigerian can't grow because we refuse to allow merit ...u refuse to allow merit out of fear igbos would dominate ....

So letting igbos go would even help Nigeria

Nigeriabiafra80:
Which way out Nigerians?

Enuguboy4nsukka:
Anambra continue leading while my backward Enugu state is competing with northern states in illiteracy.

Standard of education and academic excellence in Anambra is so high, that's why their cut of mark is the highest, if you dare reduce their cut of mark many states will loose and Anambra will take up every slot available.

Throwback:


I am not surprised that a Biafran is the one lamenting.

Like I have posited many times on this forum, Federal Unity School cut off marks are the only quota system implementation that I agree with.

trutharena:
Let me educate you guys:

Why was Unity School Established?
To foster national unity through the interactions of pupils from different part of the country.

What is the mode of admission?
Admission into unity schools is based on a quota system; 30% of candidates are selected on merit irrespective of their state of origin; another 30% from other states; then 30% from the host state; and the final 10% are admitted based on exigency.

So based on this the scores does not matter much because 60% of students will be chosen on merit from the other states in any host states. That means the school in Borno will still be dominated by at least 60% of students from other part of Nigeria with the cut off mark and will be based on merit.

Why do some states have high cut-off mark?
Excluding the educationally disadvantaged North, other states have cut-off mark to reflect sometimes the population of student and number of schools in the zone. If for example 20,000 students scores 140 in a zone with more schools, the cut off mark will be lower since there are extra school to accomodate them. If the 20,000 student scores 140 in a zone with lesser school, the the cut-off mark need to be raised reduce number of students to enter the scool.

Number of Unity Schools By Zone:
NC: 24
SW: 18
NW:18
NE: 15
SS: 17
SE:12

So SE with that much population and few unity schools will have a high cut-off mark that their counterparts. Especially when talking about the South.

Note: Some Northern state are anomalies and nothing can justify a state having just 2 as cut-off mark. I am as shocked as Buhari in this.

Nigeriabiafra80:

So unity school in south east is minimal why north has the largest
Are you ok?
Note am not insinuating about almajiri school

trutharena:
Let me educate you guys:

Why was Unity School Established?
To foster national unity through the interactions of pupils from different part of the country.

What is the mode of admission?
Admission into unity schools is based on a quota system; 30% of candidates are selected on merit irrespective of their state of origin; another 30% from other states; then 30% from the host state; and the final 10% are admitted based on exigency.

So based on this the scores does not matter much because 60% of students will be chosen on merit from the other states in any host states. That means the school in Borno will still be dominated by at least 60% of students from other part of Nigeria with the cut off mark and will be based on merit.

Why do some states have high cut-off mark?
Excluding the educationally disadvantaged North, other states have cut-off mark to reflect sometimes the population of student and number of schools in the zone. If for example 20,000 students scores 140 in a zone with more schools, the cut off mark will be lower since there are extra school to accomodate them. If the 20,000 student scores 140 in a zone with lesser school, the the cut-off mark need to be raised reduce number of students to enter the scool.

Number of Unity Schools By Zone:
NC: 24
SW: 18
NW:18
NE: 15
SS: 17
SE:12

So SE with that much population and few unity schools will have a high cut-off mark that their counterparts. Especially when talking about the South.

Note: Some Northern state are anomalies and nothing can justify a state having just 2 as cut-off mark. I am as shocked as Buhari in this.

Throwback:


Please educate the ignorant who yearly wail as though they were denied their birth rights.

It is indeed shameful for the North to have such low marks in an attempt to utilize their own quota. The academic development is very appalling till date.

Even with those low marks, most Northern states cannot still fulfill their own quota of student delegates to contribute to the federal Unity programme.

Nigeriabiafra80:

A cockroach will always be guilty in court of lizard
I don’t expect you to condemn that ,cos your hatred for Biafra is soo rooted that you won’t mind loosing your life just to see they don’t get what they want
While dying slowly from ya slavery

trutharena:

As in a lot of Ignorant people exist in this country. They just see cut-off mark and run online to talk without knowing the reason.

However in some part of the North, I can only but weep for those guys coz how do we reconcile a whole state having 2 as cut-off mark? Are they not even ashamed to fix that kind of mark. So we mean a state can't have students that will score an average of even 50 in exams into unity school.

I think looking at those states with low cut-off mark, the southerners will dominate the schools because they have to satisfy the 30-60% requirement of students from other zone or states.

Gowon's dream when he created it was to foster unity which explained why they had to make sure it accommodates every Nigerians.

Throwback:


Your problem is that you see a competition where there is none.

Let me come down to the basic level of your zombified and bigoted Biafran logic.

The federal Unity Schools Programme is a contributory system where each state sends delegates to represent them in the objective of the federal government to engender unity among Nigerian kids, as a aftermath of the Nigerian civil war.

Anambra, Lagos, Kano, Yobe, etc have the specified number of delegates to provide the federal government to achieve the objective set out. For every student who participates, you get a fairly sound education that is heavily subsidized.

Anambra has a high cut off because a lot of very bright students are jostling for the slots of student delegates already available to Anambra even before the exams were set, which is called the state quota. The cut off mark set is just the margin that allows the state to screen off the rest who will not have any slot to occupy in the Anambra team of delegates.

Yobe has a low cut off because very few and academically poor students are jostling for the slots of student delegates available to Yobe even before the exams were set.

From experience, Yobe will never be able to meet up with its number of allocated student delegates, because even those who score above 2 will not be interested in furthering their education, while a sizeable number will proceed to better private schools as it also happens in the South.

So sheathe your sword and stop agonizing over a marginalization that does not exist in this specific matter.

Let Chinedu and Segun who did not make the cut off set by Anambra and Ogun, proceed to other schools and continue their education.

It is not the end of their academic exploits that they could not be delegates to the Unity programme, while Mairuwa made the delegate slot of Yobe with only a score of 2.

At the end of the day, the Federal Government has ensured that each state sent delegates to achieve the unity agenda amongst a diverse people.

Stop wailing over what was never yours.

Nigeriabiafra80:

Am sorry to tell you
I have no such time to waste reading these nonsense
Please try use your time for something profitable

Throwback:


Be sorry for yourself and your zombified ignorance.

You will never appreciate any enlightenment that robs you of your opportunity to wail as a victim.

You love being a victim - it is a pathological obsession. Find your fellow sorrowful wailers and console each other over a failure to take what belong to others.

Nigeriabiafra80:

Now you can attest that south east have high intelligent quotient to its counterparts hence the high cut off mark now
Save this in ya brain

Throwback:


Did anyone ever say the SouthEast was the dullest in Nigeria?

Besides the Biafran almajiri zombified miscreants who cannot reason and are always ready to swallow their own propaganda, the rest have good heads on their shoulders.

At least you go away with a consolation to still chest beat over, but I know you would have preferred to be seen as a victim of federal marginalization.