JAMB presents new standards for all 2015/2016 jamb candidates

Candidates seeking admission to tertiary institutions will have to abide by the new rules from the joint admission and matriculation board (JAMB), as reported by punch.

This is because the examination body has modified it's procedure for students seeking admission for the 2016/2017 academic session with the introduction of the "preferred choice " platform in its portal.

The new addition will enable candidates have opportunities of securing admission, as a sales of form for the session commenced on the 30th of September  to end January 30th, 2016.

According to Dr Fabian Benjamin,  the chief information officer of the board,  who spoke during an exclusive interview with the Punch on Monday,  the modification will lessen competition among candidates seeking placement to the nation's "oversubscribed" Universities.

What we did initially was that you only have one choice, now we have made it in such a way that if you miss the University of lagos, University of Nigeria, obafemi awolowo University, ile-ife, and amadu Bello University, zaria, you will have an opportunity of going to another school.

Before, all Universities will be in first and second choice and that will not solve any problem. We have now decided to put few of those schools ee think will have more spaces as more preferred.

"Institutions placed on first choice are those that are actually not oversubscribed. This is because it will not make any sense 

If you place institutions like the ABU, UNILAG, OAU AMD UNN, when in 

actual sense they cannot admit one third of 

The candidates that will choose them as most preferred",  he said. 

Jamb had during 2015/2016 arbitrarily redistributed admission seekers to Universities other than their first choice institutions, which parents and candidates kicked against. 

In its response to the redistribution, JAMB claimed the redistributing policy was to accommodate more candidates, reduce wastage of admission opportunities and the stress parents and candidates go through in seeking placement in schools.