The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is a Nigerian entrance examination board for tertiary-level institutions. The board conducts entrance Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for prospective undergraduates into Nigerian universities.[citation needed] . All of these candidates must have obtained the West Africa School Certificate, now West African Examinations Council, WAEC, or its equivalent, National Examination Council (Nigeria), NECO.[2]

JAMB tests your knowledge of subjects from the JAMB syllabus. 

JAMB is an exam that qualifies you as a candidate to write the college post UTME exams.

• 4 subjects are required to be taken 
• 3 subjects are related to your field of study and one is compulsory (English Language)
• The 3 subjects are 50 questions each while English is 100 questions 
• The 50 questions carry 2 marks each and English is 1 mark each. Therefore the highest score one can get is 400. 

The 3 subjects are allocated 50 mins each and English is allocated 1 hr. In total the time allocated for the 4 subjects is 3hrs 30mins.