Re-Upload O'level Results to School Portals Compulsory?

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Rumor and news around the re-uploading of O'level results to the JAMB portal had led to another question candidates are asking, "do I also need to re-upload my results to the school portal?".

While seeking admission, you're best compared to a drowning man who will want to catch a straw. Admission seekers can generally fall for any rumor especially if they hear the same from their friends and families.

So, what it's the answer to the question surrounding if it's also needed to visit an individual university's, polytechnic's, or college's of education portal and refill and/or scan and upload your O'level results again?

This post will clarify some things before answering your question. This will save me from adding salt to your injuries.

Most Schools' Admission Portals Require O'level Results Filling

If you've already done or registered your post-UTME/DE or screening registration online, the school should have during that time, ask you to fill in your O'level results among other things. 

Some schools provide spaces for two sittings  UNIOSUN, AAUA, Adeyemi College of Education, OAU, UNIBEN, UNILORIN, etc. Some only make provisions for 5 required subjects for candidates' proposed courses e.g. OSCOTECH Esa-Oke and some want you to fill only one sitting for their courses e.g. UNILAG.

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Especially for those schools that use online screening (EKSU, ADO POLY, IREE POLY, ADEYEMI, etc), you can't complete your registration without filling in your SSCE results. See Post UTME: Will it be Exams or Admission Screening?

With that said, this is the medium through which the school will capture your O'level results details.

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JAMB Uploading of Results is Different From the Schools Uploading of Results

Don't mix things up. Uploading of O'level results is different for JAMB and schools. While school uploading is like for God, JAMB uploading is like for Caesar.

Some candidates, especially those who didn't fill the O'level result for JAMB, assume that once they upload to the post-UTME portal of their proposed schools, there's no need to upload for JAMB again. This is wrong!

Both bodies must have your results with them before you can have any hope for admission.

However, JAMB has also collected the details of your O'level result during the UTME registration. And if you used awaiting results, you should return to the nearest CBT center to upload them.

Similarly, some schools won't bother to require the filling or uploading of results to their portal during the post-UTME/screening registration. Rather, they will collect your results from JAMB. Such schools include LAUTECH and UI. LAUTECH portal will show your O'level results, as uploaded on the JAMB portal too. UI won't even show the results, but they will or have already collected it from JAMB sooner or later.

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Why is the News to Re-Upload to the School Portal?

As a matter of fact, schools and JAMB had sent warnings to all candidates to upload their O'level results to the JAMB portal. Meanwhile, the instruction was strictly for those candidates using awaiting results. Also, the instruction was that they should upload it to the JAMB portal. Here is the list of universities/polytechnics and colleges of education accepting awaiting results.

In summary, the instruction is:

1. Candidates using awaiting results should take their results to CBT centers and re-upload
2. This re-uploading is to the JAMB portal not to the school portal. except if you had not uploaded it to the school portal during your post-UTME/DE or screening registration.

Now, ask yourself:

1. Did I use awaiting results during JAMB UTME registration?
2. If yes, have I gone back to re-upload it
3. Was it uploaded to the JAMB portal truly?
4. During the Post UTME/DE, did I fill the same (or where required) on the school portal?

If you've answered those questions rightly. You don't have anything to worry about again. Otherwise, be sure you upload not only to the JAMB portal but also to the school portal - except where a school will collect them from JAMB.

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They Also Ask Us To Upload it to the School Portal

As already covered, schools must have captured your O'level results detailed during the post-UTME/screening registration. It will be rare to see a school that will ask you to re-upload the results to her portal again.

Below are a few possible reasons a school may ask you to re-upload your WAEC, NECO, or NABTEB to her portal again:

1. If you use awaiting results during the Post-UTME/DE registration too. This means the school has, during the post-UTME registration, allowed you to use AR. UNILORIN, for example, will leave the portal open for her awaiting results candidates to upload when they get the results. Hence, when their WAEC, NECO, and NABTEB results are released, they will return to update them on the school portal. This is usually allowed by UNIOSUN, LAUTECH, FEDPOLY EDE, and a few others.
2. If the school's database has issues and there is an urgent need for candidates to update their O'level results. This happened to Federal Polytechnic Offa and Kwara State Polytechnic in the 2020 admission exercise and the Federal Polytechnic Ede in the 2022 admission year. They later released updates that aspirants should reupload results to the admission portal.

In either case, candidates will be notified on the school website if there is a need to upload their results. Hence, this should not just be a rumor, it will be a direct communication between the school and its aspirants through the website, email message, or text message.

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Conclusion

Ignore any information you're not receiving on the school portal or through your email from the management or SMS from the school. Better still, you can visit your school portal immediately after you get such information to confirm if the same is on their news page.

People will always find something to tell you that will throw you into confusion. For one reason, they don't know the truth too. For another, if a school says something, they spread it as if it affects all the schools.

If you check through all the linked posts in this piece, you will still learn more.

Wishing you luck!

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