The Wise UTME Applicant
As the registration
for the 2020/2021 UTME has been declared open today 13th of January,
2020, here is a thing everyone who is going to apply for the exam must know
before registering for the exam and be careful of in their process of registering
for the exam, because eh, it is alarming the number of people who lose the
admission they so much deserve because they wrote wrong combination of subjects
in their O/Level exams, have wrong or incomplete O/Level results in comparison
with their choices of course in their UTME, and wrong subject combination in
their UTME subjects registration. It would shock you too that to avoid these
unfortunate cases is why JAMB makes sure everyone has access to the brochure
that gives details on the schools, courses and the subjects they require in
O/Levels and in the UTME, but because students must be negligent mostly, they
go ahead to register courses and choose subjects based on their personal
interests in the courses and their sentiments for the subjects they like to
write in the UTME, and then high score but no admission is what ends it many
times.
Most applicants of UTME
don’t study the brochure before registering for the exam! And this does not
mean they have enough information on the school they are choosing and their
choices of course too. The funny part of making these mistakes that always cost
them their admission they deserve is how applicants just go to the computer
guys and start registering for their UTME based on the information the computer
guys give them, not knowing that most of these computer guys are just like them—they
don’t study the brochure too! They just provide information based on the little
knowledge they have while registering for somebody else not quite long.
Requirements differ
from schools to schools, and an applicant needs to talk to an educational
consultant before registering for the exam. It would even be better if the
consultant they get to talk to is around the school they are applying to; as these
consultants always have the untold information about the school and the departments.
For instance, many computer guys and many aspirants who like to study
Management and Accounting (MAC) in OAU don’t know it is important they have one
of Government, Geography and History in their O/Levels, and they must write at
least one of the three in their UTME. So it means anyone who wants to study MAC
in OAU must write and pass Economics, English Language, Mathematics, Government
or History or Geography, and one science-related subject in their O/Levels, and
they must—in addition to the compulsory Use-of-English—write Economics,
Mathematics and one of Government, History and Geography in their UTME. Many of
the students apply to MAC without having any of Geography, History and Government
in the O/Levels, many of them fail to write any of these subjects in their UTME
too, they just think one of Commerce, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Civil
Education e.t.c should be the subject they need not any Arts or Social Sciences
subjects. So they already start losing their admission from when they start registering
for the UTME.
If you are an
applicant, study the brochure, talk to people who can give you intel about your
choices of school and courses before heading to the computer guys to commence
registration. Before commencing registration, be sure already what schools you
are choosing, the courses you are choosing and your subject combinations, don’t
get to the computer house and leave the computer guys to be making those
decisions for you. Be informed and be decisive. Don’t by yourself deny yourself of admission
just because you couldn’t spare some minutes to study the brochure and talk to
people who know better. A word is enough for the wise.
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