JAMB cancels the aptitude test for the 2024 direct entry

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has canceled the aptitude test for 2024 Direct Entry candidates.

According to a statement posted to its X account on Monday, other factors will be evaluated for Direct Entry admissions rather than the test.

“Attention, 2024 DE candidates! This is to inform you that the Board has decided not to hold the aptitude exam this year. Other placement factors will be considered for your admission while enough preparation is made for the exercise next year.

This comes after the Board stated that all protocols for admission to the nation’s higher institutions have been put in place.

It also announced that the long-awaited annual policy conference in 2024 will take place on Thursday.

The 2024 policy meeting, scheduled for July 18 in Abuja, will be chaired by the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman.

The policy meeting will approve the start of this year’s admissions.

The bulletin released on X read, “This year’s exercise will also feature the National Tertiary Admissions’ Performance-Merit Award, NATAP-M Awards, where the overall winner will receive N500 million and the other consolation winners will share N250 million collectively.

“The policy meeting, which is often attended by vice-chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics, monotechnics, and innovative enterprise institutions, provosts of colleges of education, and other key stakeholders, will evaluate and approve the parameters for the 2024 admissions exercise.

The meeting will evaluate the performance of candidates in the 2023 admissions procedure as well as the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

“The minimum admission scores, an aggregation of individual institutions’ submissions, will be approved at the meeting.”This is not a cut-off mark, as is commonly misinterpreted, but rather a minimum score that no institution should fall below.

The judgments reached during the meeting, led by the Minister of Education, serve as guiding principles for admission and are a collaborative decision, not merely that of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB.

No institution is expected to begin the admission process until after the policy meeting, as the guidelines governing the year’s admission exercise are established during the meeting with the Minister of Education’s approval.

“The meeting establishes the grand norms for the admission exercise for the year and declares that any institution that disobeys these norms will face sanctions.”