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JAMB CAPS 2026: Admission in Progress, Recommended, Not Admitted — All Status Meaning & What To Do

  Now that JAMB 2026 results are fully out, the next place every candidate visits every single day is JAMB CAPS — Central Admission Processing System . But the moment you login and click Admission Status , you start seeing short messages like Admission in Progress , Recommended , Not Admitted , Awaiting Result and many more — and most of you do not know exactly what they mean, if it is good or bad, and exactly what action you should take or avoid . Many candidates have panicked unnecessarily because they saw Not Admitted and thought it was FINAL, while others relaxed too early, seeing Admission in Progress and missed important steps. In this guide, I explain EVERY SINGLE STATUS you will see on CAPS this year , what it truly means from JAMB’s own system, and exactly what you must do at each stage. 💡 If you have not done these yet, do them immediately: ✅ Print your Original JAMB Result Slip ✅ Upload your WAEC/NECO result correctly to CAPS ✅ Know how your aggregate score is calcu...

How To Calculate JAMB Aggregate Score 2026 — Formulas For All Universities & Polytechnics

How To Calculate JAMB Aggregate Score 2026 This is the question I get most right now: “I scored 248 — is it enough for Accounting?” The honest answer is: YOUR JAMB SCORE ALONE MEANS ALMOST NOTHING. What decides admission is YOUR AGGREGATE SCORE , and every school calculates it differently. One school 248 = very strong; another school 248 = borderline; another 248 = not competitive at all. Here, I break down every major system used in Nigeria , with real arithmetic examples you can compute with your own scores right now. BASIC PRINCIPLE Aggregate = weighted combination of: JAMB UTME / 400 Post‑UTME Screening / 100 O-Level Grades points JAMB itself has NO standard formula — every institution sets its own weightings . GRADING SCALE USED ALMOST EVERYWHERE Grade Points A1 6 B2 5 B3 4 C4 3 C5 2 C6 1 D7–F9 0 METHOD 1 — 50:50 JAMB + POST‑UTME (NO O’LEVEL) Used by: UI, UNIBEN, UNN, and many federal universities AGGREGATE = (JAMB ÷ 8) + (POST‑UTME ÷ 2) JAMB / 400 → / 8 = out of 50 Post ...