The cutoff score for 2024 admission to the country’s universities is 140, while the cutoff score for polytechnics and institutes of education is 100, as certified by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, or JAMB.
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During the annual policy meeting on admissions for 2024, held at the Body Benchers Headquarters in Abuja, the National Minimum Tolerable UTME Score (NTMUS), also referred to as the cut-off score, was determined on Thursday.
Following the successful administration of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), a meeting was called. 1,989,668 candidates registered in total for the UTME this year. Eighty,810 of the 1,989,668 registered candidates did not show up for the UTME, and 1,904,189 took the test within six days of the exam.
The heads of the institutions made proposals, and Professor Tahir Mamman, the Minister of Education, chaired the policy meeting that resulted in decisions.
Is-haq Oloyede, the JAMB Registrar, who made the announcement of the cutoff scores, clarified that while individual schools were free to exceed the minimum threshold agreed upon at the policy meeting, they were not permitted to fall below it. regarding entrance age Meanwhile, Minister of Education Prof. Tahir Mamman reversed his proposal to set the benchmark entry year for postsecondary institutions in the nation at 18 years following the outcry against it.
He declared that as of 2025, only applicants who have become eighteen years old will be considered for admission.