5 Reasons Most Students Are Not Offered Admission Despite High Post-UTME Score

5 Reasons Most Students Are Not Offered Admission Despite High Post-UTME Score. Do You Know Why Schools Deny Most Prospective Students Admission? Read Details Below

Reasons Most Students Are Not Offered Admission

I really wish to bring this to your notice today, and that’s why we always caution our readers to be careful in everything. without wasting time, The following are the major reasons students may not be offered admission despite having a high post-UTME score;

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1 Wrong UTME combination:

This is one of the reasons a number of students lose admission despite beating the post-UTME cut-off point. Even at times, some students are being stripped of their admission or moved to another department during the process of first-year registration simply because of wrong JAMB subject combination. For instance, a student seeking admission to study mass communication would definitely lose the admission if he or she did not take Literature-in-English as part of the four subjects for the UTME exam.

Similarly, a student seeking admission to study Physics and Electronics should definitely select Physics as part of his UTME subject combination. Before any student fills his or her JAMB form, he or she should painstakingly go through the JAMB Brochure to know the right subject combination for his or her course of study.

Check>>JAMB Subjects Combination for Arts, Commercial, Social Sciences Students

Check>>JAMB UTME Subjects Combination for Science Students

2. University’s catchment area:

Most federal universities, including some state universities, still retain the policy of catchment area in selecting students for admission. For instance, UNILAG catchment area constitutes majorly South Western states. What this implies is; prospective students from the South West have higher chances of gaining admission. For example, a prospective student from Osun state who scored 56, applying to study sociology may be offered admission while another student from Imo state who scored 60 may not be offered admission.

This is so because if the catchment cut-off point for Osun is 56 while the general cut-off is 62, such a student from Imo state has definitely lost the admission despite having a higher score than his counterpart from the catchment zone. In view of the above, admission seekers should always be aware of a university’s catchment area and requirements before selecting any university.

3. University policy

Despite the general catchment area policy, some universities still have their individual policy they adopt as yardstick in admitting students. Oftentimes, such policies are not made public. It is therefore the duty of admission seekers to find out specific admission policies of their prospective universities from friends schooling in such universities.

4. Low UTME score

Often times, I pity most Jambites who score within the range of 180 and 210 because such scores limit their chances of gaining admission in a situation where they have to compete for the same admission slot with students who score as high as 250 and above. And most universities still compute both UTME and post-UTME scores in calculating the student’s average score.

Hence, having a low UTME score can also hinder one’s opportunity of gaining admission. It is always advisable for students to try to score 250 and above in order to be on a safer side. As a matter of fact, it is very necessary concerning the JAMB policy of redirecting students with lower UTME scores to less-competitive universities.

See This: How To Secure Admission for JAMB Students Who Scored Below 150-179

5. O’level result

I do advise admission seekers to pass ALL the necessary subjects in their O’level exam(s) very well before going ahead to take UTME exam. I have met with lots of students who lost their admission because they did not have at least credit pass in some important subjects in their O’level result.

Recently, I met with a student who lost his admission to study medicine at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye (OOU) because he did not have at least a credit pass in Mathematics in his O’level result. In fact, I felt very sorry for him because gaining admission to study a competitive course such as medicine is not easy.

Recommended: List of Schools Whose Admission Screening Forms are Out – 2017/18 [Post-UTME Forms]


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  1. Zubair Edozhigi says:

    can somebody with this jamb combination Eng 57,Bio54,Agric54Chem74 will b consider to getting admission to Bayero University KANO??? please ur answer is urgent and you will b grateful

  2. Zubair Isah says:

    thanks u so much

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