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The number one requirement for admission
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to any course at university poly
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techchnic or college of education is
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color mark. The question is what is
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color mark and how is being determined.
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I remember when way back in 2012 when I
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wrote my first jam I kept on hearing
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color mark you have to meet a color mark
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before you can get admission to medicine
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and surgery and the whole thing was just
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confusing. But today in simple terms I'm
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going to tell you what color mark is
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actually is. Now let's use an example.
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Let's say 100 students apply for
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chemical engineering at the University
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of Lagos. Now out of this 100 student,
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the best student with the highest
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aggregate score is 350 and the 100
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students that the person in 100 position
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has an aggregate score of 210. Now Unil
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will do a ranking that is from the
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highest to the lowest. So let's say the
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50th person has an aggregate score of
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230. Then since they want 20 student
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they now look at who is now the 20th
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person and let's say that person has an
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So that 251 becomes the cutoff mark. So
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every student with 251 and above
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automatically will make the admission is
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why those below 251 will not make the
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admission because unil only wants 20
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students. So when you apply for a course
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and they want 50 students, they want 100
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students, they want 150 students, this
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is how they do it. They do a ranking
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system and they will get the know they
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look at the last number, the least
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number. So if it's 150 students, they
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need for a department to look at the
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150th person, the score of the 150th
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person, that is what they will now use
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to determine the cut mark for that
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score. That is why the cut of mark
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changes every year. So col for medicine
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and surgery at UN can be 315 this year
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and it can be 317 next year. It means
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that for the color mark to be 317 there
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are people with way higher score. So
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that 317 is now the minimum score
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they've looked at it's okay uh over 80
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students have above 317. So from that
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317 and above that becomes the mark for
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that particular uh course. So it is why
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you as a student applying to a course
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will be able to determine whether you
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really have a chance for a course you're
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applying to because if your jam score is
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adequate that means you stand a chance
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of being among those students that will
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be selected based on the color mark. And
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of course if you have any question or
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you need further clarification about
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color mark you can let me know in the
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comments and I will definitely assist
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you. And if you want maybe the color
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mark for the the the course you apply to
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maybe for this year or for last year,
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you can also let me know in the comment
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and I will definitely assist you. For
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now, I wish you good luck with your
