The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) is a Nigerian entrance examination board for tertiary-level institutions.[1] The board carries out entrance examinations for prospective undergraduates into Nigerian universities. The board is also charged with the duty to administer similar examinations for applicants to Nigerian private and public monotechnics, polytechnics, and colleges of educations. Many of these candidates will need to have obtained the West Africa School Certificate, now West African Examinations Council, WAEC, or its equivalent, National Examination Council (Nigeria), NECO
Registrar in the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, ng scholars, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, has been reappointed for the next term of 5 years. The President’s approval was conveyed to the JAMB Registrar through the Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i. She noted the tenure takes effect from April 10, 2012. Prof. Rufa’i called on the registrar to rededicate himself to the prosperity of the Transformation Agenda in the President and sustain the good work and reforms going on within the examination body. Ojerinde said after getting the appointment letter he was excited and could not believe it and assured of his dedication to achieve more in JAMB within the years ahead. The registrar who was first appointed because the Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB in April 2007, came to be in Igboho, Oyo State.
Students getting yourself ready for jamb utme feel that the test is hard,the truth is it really is as hard as you allow it to be or see it- as man think in his heart, so is he, for few who understand the secret it is really not easier in theory at all. All that you should know will be the secrets- these points, before registering and entering the examination hall.
First: Study hard and thoroughly prepared for the questions-get relevant textbooks, preferably the recommended texts and some texts and to aid your preparation. Second: Know the technique and mode to answer UTME/JAMB examination questions.
For example, inside the art subjects, no calculation is necessary, so it would be better to start with the subject you are great at most first to get some amount of time for the other subjects, remember to NOT stick to the order of subjects in the question paper set e.g LIT- CRK-GOVT and you already know that you great at GOVT most, then you must start with GOVT and proceed accordingly to others. And then for sciences such as chemistry and physics, the initial few pages are full of calculations whereas the final pages are straight answer questions. Watch out for this trap. Start with the subject you are best initially, the simple order is CHEM-PHY-MTH or BIO-CHEM-PHY or choose any order suitable and be fast and accurate as well as you simply 54 seconds to reply to a question (yes less one minute)
JAMB/UTME ENGLISH- Browse the questions first before answering and focus on details. Third: Practice, Practice- Learn to practice with past questions with proper and required timing at certain practice sessions because the examiners, regardless how creative or crafty, would still come forth with similar and related questions to the questions. Finally, have a positive mindset for achievement in the exams and end up forgetting about ‘runs’ because the majority of the ‘runs’ men do not know anything. Pursuing the above steps will be the easiest and surest approach to finding yourself on your choice institution campus come next academic session.
Every Nigerian youth wants to go to a university. It is actually every parent’s dream their children graduate from a good university to make sure that they have a better life than theirs. Which is a progressive situation other than the snag is everyone is facing the same direction: they would like to attend exactly the same tertiary institutions.But existing infrastructure, policies and political realities have become a stumbling block for the hundreds of thousands in the country’s youths to accomplish this dream since it is easier for a camel to polkhu from the eye of any needle than for secondary school leavers to get admission into some universities and polytechnics in Nigeria. To illustrate: only 30 % from the 1.7 million candidates who wrote the www.ngscholars.net were admitted in 2017.
However, where there is a will, said the JAMB boss, there is a way. “If any institution does not do its admission punctually, we are going to withdraw the names of the students and transfer those to the marketplace place where others can select them. When we are going to do first choice admission, do your very own even if you are not ready to resume,” he had said.
Within the same breath, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, called for additional transparency within the mode of admissions, saying, “Please, let the qualities of transparency, honesty, sincerity, equity, loyalty, and persistence for nation building be our guiding principles. We should be dissuaded from doing any official business underneath the table.“We have extensively consulted on the way forward and that i therefore urge each institution to comply with the regulations. Some of you execute your duties with full understanding and knowledge that some of your actions cannot stand the exam of integrity, as a number of the infractions you endorse and approve are irregular.”
