OAU Pre-Degree and UTME [TAGS: OAU, POST-UTME, ADMISSION, CUTOFF, CUT OFF, PREDEGREE, JUPEB]

OAU Pre-Degree and UTME

Like the JUPEB programme, the pre-degree programme, according to generally belief, is a preliminary or remedial programme for higher education aspirants who are unable to pass UTME and candidates who want to boycott UTME, but this is mostly wrong. It is indeed are preliminary or a remedial programme, I don’t know if there is any other school that does it differently, but I know for OAU and some other universities, pre-degree does not carry that general definition; pre-degree rather is for aspirants who are able to score at least 200 in UTME and at least average in the OAU post-UTME too, but they just cannot score high enough to get the course they want in that school, so they resort to using the pre-degree as a remedial route (you will understand this by the end of this article).

OAU is one of those universities that will not conform to it if government says to cancel post-UTME, or NUC and JAMB declares any score lesser than 200 as university cut-off mark. You cannot qualify to write OAU’s post-UTME if your UTME score is anything lesser than 200, in fact, the system will not even recognise your JAMB registration number at the point of registering for the post-UTME; this means you will not even be able to apply for the post-UTME if you score lesser than 200 in your UTME. If you or your ward who has chosen OAU as their first choice of institution score lesser than 200 in the UTME, just don’t bother waiting on OAU’s post-UTME, change the school of choice immediately.

Now, this is the most important part, you see that 200 UTME score required for an applicant to be able to apply for OAU’s post-UTME, that is not the cut-off for admission, it’s only the cut-off for the university’s post-UTME, so don’t be one of those people who think because they have scored 200 in the UTME, they will be offered admission by OAU; as I’ve stated, the 200 is only the university’s cut-off, departments have their own cut-offs too, and if an applicant does not meet their aspired department’s cut-off, the department will not consider them for admission. Also, other departments (which they meet their cut-offs) will not automatically consider them for admission… unless of course they use legs, slots, and all those things. This is possible because a candidate scoring at least average point in each of O/Levels, UTME, and post-UMTE qualifies for an admission—even if they are not qualified for their department because they do not have the department’s cut-off; but if no one is pushing such supplementary admission for you, you are not getting it. So, if your aggregate point after summing all your exams and their points together is at least average but you do not meet your desired department’s cut-off, you can still be admitted to another department which you meet their cut-off, only that you will have to know somebody powerful in the system to push this for you, and you will have to do change of course with JAMB so you can change your choice of course to the one you are given.

If you do not know already, an applicant’s aggregate score is gotten by analysing their O/Level results, UTME result, and post-UTME results, and transposing the grades and scores into points, and adding all the points together to get an aggregate point. This aggregate point is what will compete with the departmental cut-off to determine whether you will get that department or not, and whether you will get an admission in the school or not.

Talking about the pre-degree now, with all that has been discussed, this is why, in OAU, the pre-degree is a remedial programme for students who can score 200 in the UTME, it’s just that they cannot score enough that will get them their aspired department when their UTME score plus other exams have been converted to points. So, if you are a -200 UTME scorer and you know you can never score up to 200 no matter how you prepare, I’d advise you to not bother doing the OAU pre-degree programme; it would be a waste of money and time when all is finished and you have to return home after one year without an admission. If you can score at least average point in all of your needed exams, even if you cannot score up to your desired department’s cut-off, you are definitely going home after the pre-degree programme with an admission—the school will surely fix you to another department which you have their cutoff mark; you don’t have to use legs, slots or anything.

For the pre-degree route to work for you into getting an admission, you must score at least average point as your CGPA at the end of the two contacts (first semester and second semester), your O/Levels when converted to points must reach average at least, you must score at least average in your UTME, (I am not sure of this) but you may need to score at least average in the post-UTME too. For the pre-degree to work for you in getting admitted to your desired course, by the time your scores from the needed exams are converted to points,  you must meet the department’s cut-off. For emphasis, even if you do not meet your desired department’s cut-off, but you have at least average in your exams and the pre-degree CGPA, OAU will automatically consider you for another course which your aggregate score meets, and this is the difference between going through the pre-degree route and the UTME route. Understand these things before going for OAU’s pre-degree, you don’t want to waste money and time. If you need more explanation or consultation on these issues, don’t hesitate to call us on 08139534187.

 

Delayed LASU Transcripts: The Causes and The Ways Out [TAGS: LASU, LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, TRANSCRIPT, STUDENT COPY]

Delayed LASU Transcripts: The Causes and The Ways Out

Lagos State University (LASU) transcript process just has to be one of the top five slowest state-owned universities’ transcript processes; it has always been so, and staff and applicants have gotten used to the dysfunctional system of processing transcripts that no one is complaining anymore like they used to. I guess when one has complained about a problem so much and no solution, they just adapt to the problem, find their own personal solution to their own part of the problem, or suffer in silence what it causes them—the Nigerian ways. But are these the right way? There are schools elsewhere around the world that are able to deliver your transcript electronically within few hours you submitted an application for such delivery, and if there is any state university or any university at all in Nigeria that has gotten to that level, it should be LASU… Lagos is still the centre of excellence, no?

The problem with applying for your LASU transcript and never having it delivered or having it delivered but way later than you need it looked like it was going to get solved when they introduced the online application system; the online portal is so functional one would think that’s the end of the problem with the transcript process, but no, the problem is not the means of application and payment, it is the process of gathering results and processing them into transcripts. So, the online application portal does not address the major problem, it only solved the problem of people having to come down to school to apply for their transcripts; now, anyone can apply for their transcript anywhere. The problems of delayed delivery and no delivery however continue to exist.

An alumnus of the school can apply for their transcript and make the payment for it online, but if they don’t have extra legs and hands on ground helping them fetch their file, results, pushing everything to the Transcript Unit, monitoring the progress of the transcript production and approval, and bribing this person and that person within all of these, the alumnus may just wait forever on the delivery of the transcript, and now that transcript is the most important academic document for an alumnus trying to travel abroad, trying to further their education, or trying to get a standard job, many people have lost great life opportunities because of this.

The permanent solution to delayed transcript delivery and undelivered transcripts—which UNIBEN has done and it works—is to set-up a team (of at least ten members) to upload from papers to an electronic database all academic results one by one, from the very first results the school published to the very last one. This may take up to one year or more if each member of the 10-man team uploads ten people’s results per working day (making it 100 alumni’s results uploaded per working day, and 700 per working week), but the completion of this project would solve over 70% of the problems with the transcript processes. Another 20% of the problem would be solved if student copy transcripts are made available online for alumni to download themselves immediately after applying and paying online—this would reduce the loads of transcript staff of the Transcript Unit would have to work on, the focus would be on official transcripts now, thereby enhancing delivery speed.

The remaining 10% of the problem would be human errors in the process, uploading of subsequent results after the first back so we don’t have any more results that are only on papers, power supply, communication with applicants and receivers of transcripts. A land phone which will ring every time if called within working times and days, and a supportive staff would actually answer it every time it rings, this would solve a good part of these problems or at least give applicants insight into whether their application is getting the good attention or not. But since the school has the Nigerian excuses for functioning backwards in the processing of transcripts, it’s a show we are not ready to stop the culture of applicants needing to use a third-party in processing their transcripts if they are going to receive it early or ever. We cannot complain too much though, the existence of institutional and organizational failures like these is why solution-based brands like us survive. It’s disturbing, but it’s the Nigerian way.

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Installed Fake Degree Documents Versus Other Fake Degree Documents

Installed Fake Degree Documents Versus Other Fake Degree Documents

This is not the kind of topic to discuss publicly, but as it is a matter that has always been, currently is, and will always be in Nigeria, and also, because it’s becoming even more rampant than ever, then it becomes important for me to discuss what I know people experience when it comes to fake degree documents.

First to mention, since the days of “Oluwole” (the headquarters of fake and forged documents, stamps, and signatures in Nigeria), I have known there are different kinds of fake documents; there are some you would do and always have to watch your back when you use them, there are some that are almost real but you cannot use them at certain places, and there are some that are as real as the original document and can be used anywhere at any time without having to watch your back. When we talk about these fake degree documents, the major factors determining where your fake documents fall are different from what you may think they are. In fact, to better understand the factors determining the usability of your fake degree documents, I have divided them into three main categories:

Designed Fake Degree Documents: This is when a designer goes ahead to design an academic document for you; it can be done badly and it can be done expertly that the chances of suspicion would be so tiny. But no matter how best it’s done, you can only use documents like this at small schools and for small employments, or at big schools and big employments that care less about verification and authenticity, schools and employers that allow just any document presented to pass anyhow. In this kind of case, you can luckily use this kind of document to get a job locally and never have a problem on it; as already mentioned, this is because many employers in Nigeria don’t bother asking the school to verify academic documents anymore, they just employ people based on what you present to them as your academic document, and if you can do the job well or quickly learn to do it while on it, no one would question your qualifications, so there’d be no call for any investigation into the authenticity of the fake qualification you presented to them. It is important you know that in the 21^st century, you cannot use this kind of document for travel purposes, you cannot use it to further your education locally or abroad, you cannot use it to get a job at multinational and standard companies—as these ones always ask for official transcripts or ask the school to very your certificate/transcripts. So, going for fake degree documents like this should be after you have understood you only need them for basic things not for big things. The cost would be between #0 and #300,000 depending on the designer doing this for you.

Uninstalled Fake Degree Documents: These get a little better than the number (1) discussed above, as the documents are produced exactly like it’s the school that produced them; in fact, it’s probably produced using the school’s materials, so they look exactly how the ones produced by the school would look. You can use these documents almost anywhere locally, so long they don’t ask the school for verification or request for official transcripts. You cannot evaluate these documents; you cannot use them for international engagements like jobs and admissions that would involve traveling abroad. This one is better than number (1) above because it is produced using the school’s materials, and the chances of discovering the fakeness are really low—so long you know where you are using them is where they don’t spend time trying to ensure genuineness of documents. This would cost between #500,000 and #1,000,000 depending on which and which document you are doing and the runsman doing it for you.

Installed Fake Degree Documents: I personally call these fake ‘academic documents that are genuine’; reason being they are produced by the school, given to you by the school, and you can use them anywhere in Nigeria or outside Nigeria for anything and at any time. This is because you are meticulously installed into the school’s filing and online systems like you actually got admitted to the school, you did the programme, took courses and passed. You engaged in different curricula and extra-curricular activities, and you graduated and got cleared for service or exemption by the school (if you were above 30 at the session of graduation or your programme is part-time). This is a perfectly done job that will never give you a reason to be afraid of where to use your academic documents—you are indeed a graduate of the school, only you didn’t go to the school. This can be done for undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in a couple of universities in Nigeria—which I cannot state here. The perfection of this kind of runs goes beyond just producing for you some sort of documents that cannot pass verification and will definitely cause problems should any institution or organisation try to look into the authenticity of the documents; this rather is a through-and-through manipulation of different things, files, stamps, and signatures at different offices in the university so that the university would believe you are one of their graduates, and they would produce your certificate, Proof of English Proficiency/Certificate of Medium of Instruction, student (unofficial) copy of your transcripts, and official copies of you transcripts anytime you need them sent to an institution or organisation, and the school will also verify that you are one of theirs anytime anyone or any authority asks them to verify your degree. This right here is the height of fake academic documents, that is why I called it installed fake degree documents; reason being that it’s not just done, it is done perfectly. So perfect that, should anyone dig up something in the future to argue you didn’t graduate from the school, you can sue them, because the school has your files and everything that says you graduated from the school; you would even be able to log on to your dashboard on the school’s portal and see your results from year one to final year. This is how deep these things can get for those who know how to do it. You can use such degree anywhere locally and abroad, you can evaluate it at any evaluation body, it will pass any test. This is however very costly; it’s not for people who can’t spare millions of Naira.

The point of this write-up, again, is to let you know—if you are looking for a fake degree document that will be useful at places that matter and not give you fears, go for only the one I called the installed fake degree documents; they are costly to do, but you will have value for your money. You can contact +2348139534187 to talk more about this.

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Date of Birth Issues on Transcripts and Parents’ Parts in the Problem

 Date of Birth Issues on Transcripts and Parents’ Parts in the Problem

Not until more and more years of attending to clients on their DOB discrepancy problem they are having on their academic transcripts and other documents, I originally believed the two major causes of DOB dissimilarities in documents among Nigerian graduates are:

(1). the insecurities of gaining admission too early or too late par age, that students feel the need to adjust their DOB to fit the admission age they feel secure with; and

(2). Students having the fear of post-graduation realities that could be caused by age (i.e. NYSC’s graduation age bar of 30 for disqualification from service, age discrimination rampant among Nigerian employers for selection for employment, retirement age factors, visa age factors, and so on).

More years of hearing DOB discrepancy cases, I have gotten to learn that parents/guardians spearheading their children/ward’s admissions and documents processing is unarguably the number one cause of the DOB discrepancy problems children/wards usually have to battle with later after graduation (when they are adults)—especially when they now want to process some kind of international admission, visa, employment or sort. Some Nigerian institutions and organisations might ignore a core dissimilarity on your documents, oyinbo will not ignore it, and a lot of opportunities can be denied just because of such fault.

It is a good thing for a child to have an adult monitoring and running their admissions for them, and also guiding them as well as helping them do things on their behalf, but it is time it gets known that as good as it is for the child, it can also be his/her misfortune later if the adult makes any mistake about any core information. If you are helping the younger ones do things that involve documents or will involve documents later—especially things that require their DOB, make sure you are not the one to make the decision for them—even if you know their DOB, it is possible they have been using on other documents/activities/programmes a different DOB from the one you know. I have heard a lot of adults sounding like they dislike their dad, mum, aunt, uncle or cousin for being the cause of the DOB issue they are having and will have to spend a lot of money to be able to rectify or lose so many life-changing opportunities. Don’t be your child/ward’s problem just because you are trying to help them achieve success on a thing.

If you are a person someone has caused this problem of DOB discrepancies on documents for, or maybe you caused yours yourself, we are able to solve this problem in several universities in the southwest, southeast and up north, although not for a token; it is a very expensive process because: (1). schools normally don’t correct DOB’s when it’s the DOB you gave them when you were admitted and you didn’t correct it before you graduated, so the solution path is always backdoors, and backdoors are never cheap; (2). several people and offices will be involved in solving this problem, with each of them collecting a good sum for their service and the risk they are taking. Bottomline, a person who cannot afford DOB modification on the academic transcript cannot get it.

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