Admission intelligence
Aggregate & cut off marks
Every university, polytechnic and college · how they calculate their aggregate, and the cut off range for every department. Curated by Tutor Bello.
Working one out for the first time · start with what an aggregate is.
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Before you look up a number
What an aggregate is
An aggregate is the single score a school ranks you by. It combines your UTME score with whatever else that school counts — its own screening test, your O’level grades, or both. Everyone who applied to a department is sorted by that one figure, highest first, and the school admits down the list until the places are gone. JAMB does not calculate it. Each school calculates its own, on its own formula.
The arithmetic most schools use
Aggregate = (UTME ÷ 8) + (screening ÷ 2)
UTME is scored over 400, so dividing by 8 puts it on 50. The Post UTME screening is scored over 100, so halving it puts it on 50 as well. Added, the aggregate sits on 100 — half JAMB, half the school.
UTME 280
÷ 8 = 35
Screening 60
÷ 2 = 30
Aggregate
65 over 100
That is the worked example on the University of Ibadan formula desk.
Why every school gets its own page
The arithmetic above is the common pattern, not a national rule, and the schools that depart from it do not depart from it slightly. UNILAG publishes two systems and announces which one governs a cycle: one is the split above; the other is 50% UTME, 30% Post UTME and 20% O’level, with a screening score below 12 disqualifying a candidate whatever their JAMB score was. ABU Zaria has ranked recent cycles mainly on UTME plus O’level points rather than a separate scored exam — though where a screening does hold, the split above applies again. UNIBEN does the same in years when no screening holds.
So open your own school above and read its formula page before you calculate anything. Where a school has not published a distinct formula, its page says so plainly rather than guessing a formula on your behalf.
Where O’level grades enter
A school that counts O’level converts each grade to points. The grading the formula desks quote is this one, taken across five subjects relevant to the course:
Two conditions decide whether those points count at all. The five must be the subjects that course requires, not your five best. And where the school says one sitting — UNILAG’s second system does — a result combined from two sittings does not qualify for that system.
JAMB’s minimum is not a cut off
The national minimum
Announced by JAMB each admission year, and it is a floor for the whole country: below it no institution may admit you. Clearing it is not an offer. It is permission to be considered.
A departmental cut off
The aggregate the last candidate admitted into that department scored, on that school’s own scale, after everyone was ranked. Nobody can publish it in advance, because it is the result of the year’s competition rather than a rule anyone set.
How to read a range
Departmental figures on this site are ranges — 72 to 85, not 78 — because the mark that got the last candidate in moves every year with the number of applicants and the number of places. The bottom of a range is the softest recent session; the top is the hardest. Plan against the top.
Once you have your number
Ranges and formulas here are maintained by the LockInPoint tutors from past cycles and official releases. Every school’s own portal is the final word on its admissions.