The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB ) says 160 has been approved as the national minimum benchmark for admission into public universities.
Naijaparry learned that this decision was reached on Tuesday at the 19th Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria.
This news medium understands that 140 has been approved as minimum Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME ) score for admission into private universities.
Spokesman for JAMB Dr. Fabian Benjamin had earlier advised candidates who sat the 2019 UTME to disregard any cut-off mark being peddled by fraudsters , describing it as "fake."
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