To combine WAEC and NECO results for Medicine and Surgery in Nigeria, you must achieve credit passes in the five core science subjects across a maximum of two sittings, provided your chosen university permits result combination.
While the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) establishes minimum professional education baselines, individual universities retain institutional discretion to dictate whether they accept single or combined O-Level sittings for medical admissions.
Certain premier federal institutions, including the University of Ibadan and the University of Ilorin, enforce a strict one-sitting O-Level policy for Medicine and Surgery, outrightly rejecting combined WAEC and NECO results during physical screening.
For institutions that officially accept combined results for Medicine, your two O-Level certificates must satisfy these compulsory academic benchmarks:
- Credit passes (minimum C6 grade) in five mandatory subjects: English Language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
- The five required subjects must be fully cleared across not more than two distinct examination sittings from WAEC, NECO, or a combination of both.
- Both results must be presented as original certificates or verified online result slips containing functional candidate identity photos and serial numbers.
- NABTEB results are generally not acceptable in combination with WAEC or NECO for Medicine and Surgery admissions in Nigerian universities.
Follow these practical steps to verify your medical admission eligibility when combining two results:
- Consult the official JAMB Interactive e-Brochure to check the specific O-Level requirements stipulated by your prospective medical faculty.
- Confirm whether your target university explicitly advertises that it accepts two O-Level sittings for Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS).
- Verify that across your two sittings, you have scored at least a C6 in English Language, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics without omitting any core subject.
- Upload both examination results sequentially to your personal profile on the JAMB CAPS portal at an accredited CBT centre.
- Ensure your post-UTME screening portal submission accurately reflects both examination diet types, exam years, and examination candidate numbers.
- Print two colored copies of both verified result slips and present them during departmental and faculty physical verification screening exercises.
You can verify and cross-check your uploaded credentials directly on the JAMB e-Facility portal.
If your target university requires a single sitting, consider switching to an accredited state or federal university that welcomes two-sitting candidates to protect your medical admission.
Medical training requires rigorous academic discipline and uncompromising mastery of basic science subjects from the secondary level.
Candidates aspiring to study Medicine should verify specific faculty requirements with the admissions office before finalizing their choices.
Ensuring that both O-Level result sittings are verified on CAPS provides seamless clearance during faculty matriculation.
Prospective scholars must maintain meticulous records of all online applications, payment receipts, and official institutional clearance dockets throughout their academic journey. Diligent documentation protects your candidate profile from administrative discrepancies and facilitates seamless physical verification across faculty screening desks.
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Please what is the recommended procedure if the school portal is not reflecting the payment receipt after completing the bank branch remita transfer?
Great inquiry. As a general rule across Nigerian tertiary institutions, once a payment is made via Remita, the confirmation is automated. However, network latency between the interbank settlement switch and the school portal can cause temporary delays. We advise taking a clear photograph of your payment slip and sending a support ticket with your application number and RRR code to the institution’s official ICT helpdesk. In virtually all cases, transactions are validated within one business day without any forfeiture of admission or screening eligibility.
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Thank you for shedding light on this issue. Our school counselor never explained the difference between the aggregate score and the raw UTME mark like this.
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Please I need a quick clarification: can an applicant who has already uploaded their O-level result make changes if there was an omission of a required subject?
Thank you for contacting EduTalks. Regarding subject combination discrepancies: if your chosen UTME subject combination does not align strictly with the National Universities Commission (NUC) and JAMB brochure requirements for that faculty, you must immediately apply for a Change of Course on the JAMB portal to an aligned discipline. Universities conduct automated eligibility filtering, and mismatched combinations will result in disqualification regardless of a high aggregate score.
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