These Things about OAU Departmental Cutoffs
If you are an OAU aspirant
or a relative of one, at some point just after the UTME or after the Post-UTME,
you will definitely type something like “OAU cutoff mark” in the Google search
engine, just because you want to know your admission fate or that of your ward.
This is okay, only that most people don’t get to know OAU has never and will
never have a departmental cutoff for a particular admission year until after
the Post-UTME has been done and the results analyzed. This means if you are a
2020/2021 OAU aspirant, you have to know that whatever cutoff you’ve been
seeing everywhere online cannot just be the cutoff OAU is using this admission
year.
However, you can
use the genuine ones of the spreading cutoffs as a guide to help you know what
the cutoff of your choice of department circles around per admission year. Though
while you do this too, you still have to be very careful—especially if you are
still preparing for the Post-UTME—so that you will not see cutoffs from long
ago that’s making you feel like your admission is already assured so you don’t need
to work harder in preparation for the Post-UTME; there are years when some
internal and external factors will cause a great hike on the cutoff of a
particular department. Example of such years and factors was when the Faculty
of Law lost their NUC accreditation, and thousands of people who choose Ife Law
every year had to choose English Language now—to join the already-too-much
applicants who originally choose English Language every year because they don’t
want to go to another school for Law—causing the total applicants for English
to be too much, and needing to be cut down by all means, then resulting in
English Language having the cutoff that’s competing with that of Medicine and
Surgery. If any applicant had relaxed because they’ve seen online that the
cutoff of English Language is always around 60% and they had already gotten the
good O/Level and UTME score points, then the cutoff for the year comes out and
it turns out to be 80%, wouldn’t that be a problem?
So, when you see
all these cutoffs online released even before the Post-UTME is written, just
kindly understand that: first, they are likely to not be genuine, and when they
are genuine, they are definitely from the past and most definitely not the
cutoff your department would use this current admission year. I repeat, OAU will
never release the departmental cutoff until after the Post-UTME is written and
the results analyzed. In fact, it is from this results analysis they get the
cutoff of each department from, and the formula for getting it is: TAS/TNC=AS
Where:
TAS = total
aggregate scores (gotten by adding what all the candidates who choose this
department scored in their aggregate)
TNC = total number
of candidates who chose this department and participated in the screening).
AS = average score
(which would be the cutoff for the particular department this calculation is
carried out for).
This system of
getting the cutoff is why OAU does not like to consider the candidates who
change their choice of course after the Post-UTME has been written and the
results have been released for admission to the new department they changed to,
and also they don’t like to consider for another department the candidates who didn’t
make the cutoff for a department they chose (unless a slot is used for such
person). All these happen because it would affect the credibility and validity
of the system of getting the cutoff such department is using. It might even
affect two departments—the department the candidate changed from and the
department the candidate changed to.
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good pm sir , please what are the documents required to submit to the admission office per DE (OAU aspirant)
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