The adoption of Post-UME examination in Nigerian Universities has raised controversies among Nigerian citizens as regards to its creditability in admitting students into various departments. To confirm or disprove the creditability of Post-UME EXAMINATION, two years data on admission for the thirteen programmes for 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 academic sessions are collected from the academic division of Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil. The attributes considered in this research are JAMB score, post UME score, number of relevant O level credits earned, number of sittings in O level examination, number of deficiency if any, and age of the applicant at the time of admission and these are the parameters considered in admitting a candidate. Eash of the thirteeen data matrix is standardised, a predictiond is deduced based on the tw formulated hypotheses arose as regards to credieability of post-UME or otherwise and cluster analyses of variables with correlation distance coefficient as a similarity measure on Complete linkage and Ward's linkage and the results are compared with the stated prediction. The stated prediction is disproved on 5 data matrices while the results confirmed the stated prediction on eight data matrices

TITLE - Investigating the creditability of Post-UME using hypothetico-deductive and clustering methods.
AUTHOR - Munkaila Danjuma
••••••IJSER Edition - November 2013

UNIVERSITY - Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil
GUIDE NAME -
Baba