Another jamb has come and gone, I pray every candidate surpasses the cutoff mark and also pass post utme to gain entrance into your chosen tertiary institution. Everyone said amen to that prayer but we all know it’s not possible, especially in a country like Nigeria. This days, it takes the grace of God for students to gain admission into higher institutions, that’s why you see students or parents giving testimony in church after successfully gaining admission.
admission.
To all those who would gain admission this year, I congratulate you in advance but if you are not so lucky, my dear friend, I have some words to share with you.
First of all don’t think your friends who got admission are better than you, the truth is; the number of universities and polytechnics in Nigeria cannot admit the ever increasing massive number of students writing jamb each year, some students would be admitted while those who were not admitted would join the new applicants who would be writing newly. Year by year the number keeps increasing.
Instead of staying at home for an extra one year, why not apply for a part-time program in any of the universities or polytechnics that supports it. I’m currently running a part-time program at Yabatech, the good thing about it is; there is no difference between a part-timers certificate from a full-timers certificate (the case may be different in other schools), besides, the school fee is cheap in my school, I’m not sure there is any course that cost up to N80,000 per section.
As a part-time student, you have time to acquire professional certificates related to your intended course of study, you would also have time to work if your parents can’t afford your school fees. I’m a computer science student, I have plans to acquire four different computer related professional certificates at NIIT and other computer institutes before finishing my HND, this would not only add to my C.V, it would also make me more employable. Mind you, it doesn’t affect my studies at all.
As a part-timer, if I graduate with a second class upper plus my four professional certificates, I submit my C.V to a company, meanwhile a first class upper full-timer who didn’t have time to get any professional course also submits to the same company, who do you think the company would take?
Don’t let anyone tell you that part-time is not good, it’s too expensive, bla bla bla. Polytechnics have been on strike since last year but it didn’t affect the part-timers, I just finished my ND1 first semester exam meanwhile ND1 full time hasn’t resumed yet.
If you keep staying at home and re-writing, how are you sure of the next jamb? When i wrote my first jamb, I scored 192, I didn’t go for post utme because it wasn’t up to 200 and I didn’t want to attend a polytechnic. My second jamb, I scored 243, in my post utme at FUTO, I scored 264, meanwhile the original cutoff mark for my intended course of study was 200, but because most students scored more than the cutoff, the school increased the cutoff to 265. Imagine, only one mark made me stay an extra one year of which if I knew someone, I would have gained that admission. I had to re-write another jamb, this time around, the zeal was not there plus the massive failure in 2013, I scored 189. A friend told me about Yabatech’s part-time program, I just had to apply.
[p]Please fellow students, I’m not trying to confuse you but to convince you that mere writing of JAMB does not guarantee your admission, you equally need the backup tool which could be money, the brains, the connection and the grace. Don’t wait extra one year, pick a part-time form as soon as it is out.
Note: Part-time does not require JAMB, you just need your o’level result (make sure you get at least credit in your required subjects) and some other required documents.
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