We're saving students from universities’ money-making machine — JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) has said its decision to
redistribute candidates is to save them from
universities’ money-making machine.
According to the head of JAMB, Lagos, Dr.
Beatrice Okorie, the new admission policy
saves students the trouble of paying for post-
UTME exams at institutions that will not
admit them.
“If we had not done that, many of these
candidates would have fallen prey of the
universities’ money-making machine, that is,
the post-UTME without securing admission
even with their high scores," Okorie said in a
Vanguard report.
She said with the redistribution, candidates
have a better chance at securing admissions
without hassles.
“What we have done is to look at those who
have not met with the cut-off points of
UNILAG based on merit, catchment areas and
the educationally less disadvantaged areas,
but who have chances of securing admission
in other federal and state universities and
push them there to write post-UTME tests,"
she added.
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She noted that candidates can from Monday
3rd of August begin to check where they have
been posted to on its website.
Okorie also strongly condemned universities
who use the post UTME as a money-making
exercise.