JAMB: 5 Things You Should Consider Before Choosing a School

Choosing a school is a decision that can either make you secure 🔐 or lose 🔒 your admission. There are things you should consider before making a final decision about your school of choice. Without you considering all the below procedures, I tell you 👉 , YOU might get frustrated later in that school.
There are lot of things you should consider before choosing a INSTITUTION but I will mention few of them;

• Location of the school:* Before you can make decision of chosing a school, you must put location into consideration. I have heard of students that choose a school just because they want to be far away from home, but I tell you, you might later regret your decision because it is a wrong motive in choosing your school of study. I have a friend who lives in Lagos but study in FUTMINNA, he hardly comes home  due to TRANSPORT and some other criteria aswell. 

• Strike history of the school:* I am very sure you don’t want to use seven years to study a course of 4-5 years. Do you doubt? There are some Institutions in Nigeria in which Strike is their HOBBY. I know of a candidates that choose LAUTECH this year JAMB just because his sister is attending the school. But he failed to know that even candidates that sat for JAMB exam last year have not resume in LAUTECH. What a school!!! *I will advise you go online and research about schools.*

• Catchment area of the school:* I know of candidates that couldn’t gain admission in a school just because their state was not among the catchment area of the school. Some people fail to understand what catchment area means; but I will shed more light on it.

Catchment area can be described as states that will be considered admission if they do not meet the cut off mark. For example, catchment areas for UNILAG are Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Osun, and Oyo. How does this works? Simple!!! Assuming student A is from Jigawa state and student B from Osun state, Has 250 and 240 in JAMB respectively. In UNILAG, student B will be considered because he is from the catchment area despite having a lower mark compared to student A from Jigawa. Understood?

• Competition in the school:* I don’t know how desperate you are for this admission but I will advise you not to choose highly competitive schools if you really want admission this year. There are some low competitive schools that you can consider and I promise you that you won’t regret it. You can’t compare a student that choose UNILAG and got 260 in JAMB with a student that chose DELSU and got 260 in JAMB. The student that choose DELSU has high chances of admission than the student that applied for UNILAG despite having same JAMB score with same course.

Previous years’ cut-off mark:* Cut-off mark is what determines your admission into a school. But you can actually predict the cut-off mark for this year based on the previous year cut-off mark. Before you can make your final decision in choosing your preferred school, go online and make some research about their last five years cut-off marks, by doing so, you can possibly predict this year’s cut-off mark. In a nutshell , make research about the previous years’ cut-off mark before choosing a school.