Garba spoke to newsmen in Abuja after he monitored the National Common Entrance interview into Federal Government Colleges, at Government Secondary School, Wuse Zone 3.
Represented
by Mr Abdul Mustapha, the Abuja Liaison Officer of NECO, Garba said
that it was not actually the score alone that determines whether a child
qualifies or not.
“In
every state, ranking is done; if you want to admit 6000 students in a
state for instance, then you rank from the score of the first person to
where the score of the 6000th person stops and that becomes the cut-off
mark.
“Performances
vary from state to state; you hear parents say I am from so and so
state and my child score high but was not admitted but another child
from another state was admitted.
“It
is so because the cut -off marks for such disadvantaged states are
usually lower; there is a clear cut criteria and it is only for the
parents to know the criteria.
“These school are unity colleges which means you must take along all parts of the country,’’ he said.
The
registrar said that every part of Nigeria must be adequately
represented in those schools hence the variance in cut-off marks from
state to state.
Garba
said that feedback from the states indicated that the interview was
going on smoothly, adding that students’ excitement indicated that it
was a huge success.
Dr
MacJohn Nwaobiala, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, said
that the unity colleges had places for about 24,000 but close to 36,000
sat for the interview.
He,
however, expressed optimism that those that might not be absorbed in
the unity schools still had opportunities in other schools.
“Education
is the right of every Nigerian child and government will do everything
possible to ensure that we have all these children in schools.
“In
terms of quality of teaching, we have better teachers and facilities;
secondly the fees in the unity is also low and that explains why lots of
parents want their children to attend unity schools.
“The results are expected to be released by NECO to the Federal Ministry of Education on June 17,” he said.
Nwaobiala
said experts from the ministry and principals of the colleges would
undertake a selection and placement exercise between June 21 and June
25.
He
said that admitted candidates were to check the status of their
admissions both at the various unity colleges and online at
www.fmeinterviewtest.comn from June 29.
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NAN recalls that 86,365 students on April 25, sat for the 2015 common entrance into 104 unity colleges. (NAN)
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