Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)

Over 800,000 candidates have registered since the sales of UTME form began on 20th of March, 2017. According to the board’s Head of Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, who disclosed this, the introduction of the remit mode of payment has improved the process of acquiring registration documents. “This measure has doubled the rate of the registration …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that candidates applying for JAMB Direct Entry will not be sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). However, Direct Entry Students will sit for an aptitude test in the university they selected as their choice. This was disclosed by the Head of Information, JAMB, Mr. …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that candidates who are already matriculated students of any tertiary institution are not allowed to site for UTME. This was made this known by the PRO of the board during a phone conversation with newsmen on Monday. According to him, “Students with matriculation numbers of universities …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that candidates can now pay for the ePIN for 2017 UTME registration using Remita platform. According to JAMB in a statement release by the Head of Media, Dr Fabian, this development is due to the challenges faced by candidates in acquiring the ePIN form banks and …

Sequel to our post on JAMB to reduce the time frame of the exam, the board has now reduced the number of UTME questions and the time for the entire exam. The new format of the 2017 UTME will now be as follows; Total Number of Questions: 180  Time to answer all questions: 2 Hours …

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, on Wednesday said the board may reduce the timeline for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) from three hours to two hours. He further stated that question papers will be uploaded five minutes to the examinations in order to check malpractice and …

In order to deal with the challenge of computer low level literacy of some candidates, especially with the phobia for the mouse, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has disclosed that it will adopt an “eight-key device” for the 2017 UTME. Speaking during the Strategic Planning retreat on Supervision and Evaluation of 2017 UTME …

Dr. Ayobami Hanif Mohammed, the author of Last Days at Forcados High School, is planning to sue JAMB and the Cassava Republic Press for conspiring to violate his copyrights. The book, written by Mohammed in 2006 as a student of University of Lagos (UNILAG) was in 2014 accepted by JAMB as the official handbook for …

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has emphasized again that candidates awaiting their O’level results can register for the 2017 UTME. However, according to the Spokesperson of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, awaiting result candidates who fail to upload their results between May and August, would not be confirmed to gain admission into any tertiary …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is set to conduct her 1st UTME Mock Exam on Saturday, 8th April, 2017. This was confirmed from Official 2017 UTME Registration details released by the board. According to the details, the Mock Exam is totally optional and you can choose NOT to write it on 8th April. …

Register Now! JAMB 2017 UTME Registration Will Last for Just 1 Month The official commencement date of the 2017 UTME registration has been announced by the Board and the sales of registration forms will officially commence on March 20th, 2017 and end on April 19th, 2017 while the registration on JAMB’s portal ends on April 22nd, …

Following the announcement of the registration date, guidelines and general information of the 2017 UTME released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), we are pleased to inform all candidates interested in registering the exam that the board has introduced a new book: “In Dependence” by Sarah Ladip Manyika. All candidates are to note …