Knowing Your OAU Admission Fate after Knowing Your OAU Post-UTME Result
By
now, every true aspirant of OAU must have seen their post-UTME result. If there
is any student who haven’t, then something is certainly wrong somewhere. But it
must be said that yearly to abuse the norm, we have cases when everyone will
see their results and some candidates won’t have a result, probably because of
electrical, technical, personnel or personal errors. If you are presently
finding yourself in this kind of situation, don’t panic yet, everything has
solution; na human beings dey behind the systems handling everything, just seek
for help immediately and do whatever you are instructed to do, it will all work
out fine in the end. But for those who have been able to see their results, I
want to slice out some serious information right now, just so you know this
early where you are standing instead of waiting for OAU’s cutoff or admission
list for several months and in the end you are not offered admission—even when
you have “Eligible for Admission” on your result slip.
Now
let me quickly make this clear, if you have “Not Eligible for Admission”
written on your result slip, please be smart enough to start considering other
options, because unless there are some unbelievable interventions, OAU is out
of your hands already! Let me tell this part that most aspirants don’t like to
hear too, you see, just because you have “Eligible for Admission” written on
your result slip does not even mean at all that you are gaining admission, and
this contributes largely to why many candidates end up wasting their good
scores as many of them just sit and relax when they see “Eligible for
Admission” on their result slip thinking their admission is sealed, but the
truth here is that that “Eligible for Admission” thing is in fact the reason why
so many students end up not gaining admission in the end, and this is because
there are about 6 to 7 things that really determine who is qualified to be
admitted to OAU. I will take my time to highlight and explain them all.
First
of them all is that the applicant must have chosen OAU as the first choice of institution.
This should not be a thing I have to mention here, but when we keep having people
choosing OAU as second or third choice of institution every year, it will only
mean some people are actually yet to get it that OAU will not even give you the
chance to register for their post-UTME if you have not chosen them as the first
choice of institution.
Second
of all, any OAU aspirant must score above 200 in the UTME to even be able to register
for the post-UTME at all. Again, I have to talk about this here because yearly,
we get candidates who score below 200 coming to us that they want to register
for the post-UTME, which also means there are always people out there who still
need to be told that they can’t register for OAU post-UTME lest they have
scored 200 at least in the UTME.
Thirdly
(which is where it starts becoming complicated), after analyzing the O/Level results
of the candidates in the five relevant subjects and basing the grade points
over 50, the candidate must have at least half of the points which is 25 here. Not
having this minimum grade point of 25 in the analysis of the O/Level results
will deny a candidate of their admission, even when they have “Eligible for
Admission” written on the slip. I bet many OAU aspirants don’t know this,
that’s why many of them rant about OAU not offering them the admission they
think they are qualified for.
Fourthly,
whatever the candidate scores over the 50 grade points as explained above will
be divided by 5, the result of that division will be added to the candidate’s
post-UTME score, from which they must score the minimum of 25. Also, many
candidates don’t know this, and you have no idea how much this leaves so many
candidates with “Eligible for Admission” confused when they in the end aren’t
offered admission.
Fifthly,
in the post-UTME result, of which the overall attainable score is 40, 10 marks for
each of the 4 subjects the candidate wrote in the post-UTME (which must also be
the subjects they wrote in the UTME except for the Use-of-English which will be
replaced with Aptitude Test), the candidate must score at least 20 of the overall
attainable score.
Don’t forget
that—as said above—we are adding whatever the candidate scores over 40 with the
grade point they got in the analysis of the 5 relevant O/Level results divided
by 5, and they must score 25 at least.
Sixthly,
this is not only a requirement but also an understanding-requiring issue, and it’s
the explanation of what happens when a candidate has “Eligible for Admission”
on their result slip and yet they are not offered admission. Now, let me be
blunt about this, as an OAU aspirant, you can smile when you check your
post-UTME result and you find “Eligible for Admission” there, but don’t let
your smile get too wide yet. This is because “Eligible for Admission” only
means that OAU has successfully classified everyone who wrote the post-UTME
into two; one of the two classes don’t deserve to be considered for admission
at all and some of the other class can be considered (if they have what they
should have and do what they should do and in time). I’m saying, after seeing
“Eligible for Admission” on your result slip, you still have one more level to
win before standing the full chance to be offered admission, I’m talking about
the departmental cutoffs here. Because you are considered “Eligible for
Admission” does not mean you have gotten the cutoff mark for your aspired department
and that is what we are all waiting for right now—the cutoff—to help us know who
is really getting the admission to the department they applied to and who is
not (please click here to see the list of the departmental cutoffs used for
admission last year).
Now, I
have to warn you, if you have “Eligible for Admission” on your result slip and
you do not meet the cutoff of your department, please don’t make the mistake of
thinking OAU is automatically considering you for another department that
matches your cutoff; hell no! OAU doesn’t do that. OAU does not automatically consider
you for admission to a department you have not applied to. Now pay attention to
how I’ve been putting the word automatically in my statements. That’s me saying
though OAU does not by default starts considering you for admission to another
department of lesser cutoff just because you are eligible for admission but you
do not meet the cutoff of your department, however, if you do your running
around and processing when you should do them, that is when you are considered
for another department, and that’s the real idea behind the “Eligible for Admission”,
it just makes it mean if you tried and did what you have to do, you could be admitted
anyways (to another department or even yours), even when you do not meet the
cutoff of your department.
This
is the last stage I’m about to discuss; the stage where your admission is given
actually, this is the stage when after you have been offered admission and you
have accepted it, you still get screened to confirm that by credentials, you
indeed are qualified to have the admission you’ve been offered. When you are found
qualified is when you are finally filed and given the admission to the
university in the name of the Vice-Chancellor of the university. This is the
stage where the department you’ve been offered admission to screens your
certificates to ascertain that you are indeed qualified for the admission. The certificates
they will be screening range from your birth certificate, O/Level certificate
to your UTME original result. The birth certificate (or any other relevant
legal document of declaration of age) is needed to ascertain that you are 16 or
above at the point of been given the admission; age lesser than 16 will make
you forfeit the admission offered. The birth certificate is also needed to
confirm the similarity of the age on the rest of the certificates required of
you. This goes a long way in defining your graduation age. This graduation age
is the age that determines whether you will be mobilized for NYSC or not. Your
O/Level and UTME certificates will be screened too to ascertain that you indeed
meet the subject requirements and combinations for the department you have been
offered admission to, and to affirm that the certificates belong to you. Not meeting
any of these requirements will make you forfeit the admission.
With
everything listed here so far done meticulously, your admission is almost
certain. But hey, if you have not understood any thing of all I have highlighted
and explained, please don’t leave that sixth explanation without understanding
it. So, please go back to that sixth explanation and be sure you get every
message I’m trying to pass with it. I wish you all the best in your admission
processing.
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