Over 27,000 applicants seeking admission to Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, on Saturday wrote the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Public Relations Officer of OAU, Abiodun Olanrewaju, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Ile-Ife on Saturday, said the candidates include secondary school leavers and direct entry students.
Olanrewaju said that the students that qualified for OAU post-UTME were the ones who scored 200 and above in JAMB exams and took OAU as their first choice.
He said that many candidates with distinctions from their various schools applied for the admission and in order to be fair to all, screening exercise should be carried out.
“We have so many candidates that applied for direct entry admission and just to fulfill exam righteousness, they need to be screened.
“We don’t want to be unfair to any and for us to be justified; admission screening would allow us to have the real competent ones,” he said.
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