The Commonest Admission-Depriving
Mistakes Jambites Make
Now that the registration for the 2020/2021
admission session UTME is on, I feel the need to publish this article to warn
applicants of the likely mistakes they could make—at the level of registering for
the exam—that would deny them of their admission even when they have gotten all
it takes to get the admission. Not that many of them who even come across such
write-up as this would even bother to read it. I mean, a student that doesn’t care
about studying the JAMB brochure before registering for their UTME—even when
they are repeatedly asked to study the brochure before going on with the registration,
what are the chances that such student would want to read a whole write-up that’s
meant to warn them of what their negligence and ignorance may cost them? Being in
the educational consultancy business for a while has exposed me to different
kinds of applicants who lose admission based on one or two mistakes they made
while registering for the exam, and the kinds of mistakes they make. I will be
talking about the commonest of them after this advert break...
Not Studying the Brochure: Most UTME applicants don’t study the
brochure before going to the computer centre to register for the exam, they
just decide these are the schools I like, these are the courses I like, these
are the O/Level subjects I feel like using and these are the subjects I like to
write in my UTME, and many at times, this negligence gets them into some
admission trouble. Every school have how they offer admission to each of their
courses and the kind of students they want to take in for each course, they
have the subjects they expect you to have passed in your O/Levels and the
subjects they need you to write in the UTME to be qualified for admission. And in
fact, these expectations and requirements are not constant; they may change at
any time. Because you used to know OAU for instance doesn’t accept Commerce in
place of Government or Economics in the UTME combinations to study in the
Faculty of Administration doesn’t mean things couldn’t have changed yesterday;
things may change and then OAU now accepts Commerce and Economics. You just
have to study the brochure before filling the form!
Confusing the Computer Person for an
Education Consultant:
Applicants by default believe the guy they go to at the computer centres to
register for the exam knows everything about the school they are trying to
apply to and about the course they desire, so they just leave the computer guy
to everything that most of them end up not even knowing the email and/or
password the computer guy used to create their UTME form. I must emphasize
this, the computer centre guys mostly are not there to correct you on anything,
they are just there to help you fill in the things you have decided to fill in
your form, and many of them who even act like they know what you should fill in
the form don’t even know the right thing at all. So you need to consult an
education consultant before filling that form. An education consultant is in
the best position to know everything about every school, or at least be able to
get valid information on the things they don’t know. I will say this again,
consult an educational consultant before registering for your UTME. Wrong
entries will not deny you of your well-deserved admission o.
Not Paying Attention to Anything During
Registration: Like I said
earlier on, most applicant don’t really pay attention when the filling of their
form is going on, they just nod their head and provide answers to the questions
they are asked. I know this because most applicants don’t even get to know the
email address used to register their UTME until it’s time to print the exam
slip, and because the printing of the exam slip doesn’t require inserting their
password on the JAMB portal, most of them don’t know they password until they
need to do some Data Correction (Change of Institution, Change of Course and
the likes) or something like that on their portal. We go through so much at
these two times and when it’s time to register for the Post-UTME and their
password is needed. We are always having to go through hell in recovering their
password. And according to my personal survey on 2017, 2018 and 2019 UTME
candidates, over 90% of candidates (of all these years put together) who have
problems recovering their password end up not gaining admission to their
desired school or course. You know why, when it comes to admission, not paying
attention to your own stuff means you are careless, and most schools’ screening
are programmed to screen out careless people too. Carelessness has a snowball
effect, if you could be careless about your UTME registration, you would be
careless about several other things and they will all come together in the end
to deny you of your admission.
If the foundation of a house is already bad,
the whole building is going to end up bad. If the registration of your UTME is
bad, no matter how good everything else turns out, that foundation will always
have its own definition of how good your building stans. Don’t be a careless
applicant, don’t be an ignorant applicant, contact an education consultant, do
your part in the exam and do it to your best capacity; you will have yourself
to appreciate for it. I wish you well.
NB:
if you have chosen OAU as your choice of school and you want to come to Ife to
take coaching in preparation for the UTME, we’ve got you covered. Our tutorial
centre is the best in town and our hostel facilities are conducive and
comfortable too. Pictures speak…
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