Why JAMB Will Not Close Change Of Course Form Soon – JAMB P.R.O, Fabian

The Joint Admission Matriculation Board has assured that it will not end the change of courses and institutions procedures until 2017/2018 admission is concluded.

JAMB’s Head of Public Relations, Fabian
Benjamin, made this known in an interview yesterday, August 7. He said candidates who wish to change their courses or institutions should take their time to do that well and not hurry to make mistakes.

Giving reasons why the board doesn’t intend ending the procedures soon, Mr. Benjamin said:

“This is so because there are moments whereby candidates who chose particular institution will not have opportunity there and other one will
want to offer them admission.

“If closed, it will be difficult to access such offer, all candidates need to do is go back to the portal and make changes to those institutions and access available opportunities.

“We want to avoid situation whereby
candidates will have multiple admission and will take one and be denied that opportunity.

“When we do that statistics will be
strengthened; if candidates choose University of Lagos and later consider Yaba-Tech the statistic will reflect the second choice.

“So that when we are giving account of
admission of candidate, we will be able to provide accurate statistic and not distorted data we have been dishing out before”.

However, the process of change of courses and institutions could be done with the payment of N2,500 in JAMB Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres and at other approved centres.

Interested candidates are advised to make up their mind properly before applying for any changes to avoid irregularities.

Aside these, Mr. Benjamin revealed that the board would hold the policy committee meeting on August 21 and 22, to determine cut-off points for admissions this year into various courses and tertiary institutions.

He further said that the decision for the cut-off points for admission would be decided by Vice- Chancellors of universities, Rectors of Polytechnics and Mono-techniques and Provosts of Colleges of Education.