JAMB, POST-UTME IN BATTLE OF RELEVANCE

 Going by the number of candidates that obtained 180 cut-off mark indicating they passed the entrance examination into tertiary institutions in the country conducted by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for the 2012 academic session, it meant about 1,048,314 out of over 1.5 million candidates are eligible for tertiary admission. Professor Dibu Ojerinde, JAMB Registrar, giving a breakdown of the results at a press briefing in Abuja last Friday, said 901 of the candidates scored 270 and above, 72,243 had between 250-269, 601,151 scored 200-249, 374,920 obtained 170-199, while 336, 330 scored 170 which is below the 180 cut-off  mark. The 180 mark is the qualification to sit for the post-UTME (Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination ) conducted by individual  Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of
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