JAMB 2022 UTME/DE Registration Guidelines & Procedure

The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), conducted by JAMB is a uniform entry-level examination for candidates seeking tertiary education.

JAMB 2022 UTME Entry Requirements

The general entry requirements for admission into the First Degree, National Diploma (ND), National Innovation Diploma (NID) and Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) programmes in Universities, other degree-awarding Institutions, Monotechnics, Polytechnics, Innovation Enterprise Institutions and Colleges of Education are five (5) O’Level Credit passes including Mathematics and English Language.

Details are available in the Brochure, which would be given to each candidate at the accredited CBT centres and JAMB State-Offices.

 

JAMB 2022 Syllabus

The e-brochure is also available for download ibass.jamb.gov.ng and on Android Mobile App(JAMB IBASS) from the Google Play store.

DO NOT GIVE YOUR PASSWORD to any centre (or Cyber Café). Any centre that asks for more than your profile code, email address and registration number is a fraudster. Do not give any passwords.

 

1. Is JAMB 2022 Form Out?

Ans: Yes, the JAMB Form is out.

 

2. What is the Date for JAMB 2022/JAMB Registration Date

Ans: The period of sale/registration for all candidates (UTME/DE) including those from Foreign Countries is from 19th February to March 26th, 2022.

 

3. Can I buy JAMB Form Online?

Ans: The registration has several processes. The first few steps are online. Then you have to visit a JAMB CBT Center near you to complete the registration.

 

4. Is NIN Required for 2022 JAMB?

Ans: Yes, it is required. Please o and get yours now!

 

5. Can I Register JAMB Without NIN?

Ans: No, you can’t. You need the National Identity Number (NIN) To register.

Sale & Registration Period for 2022 UTME

The period of sale/registration for all candidates (UTME/DE) including those from Foreign Countries is from 19th February to March 26th, 2022.

 

JAMB 2022 Registration Requirements for UTME/DE Candidates

UTME Requirement

The general entry requirements for admission into the First Degree,

• National Diploma (ND),
• National Innovation Diploma (NID) and
• Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) programmes in Universities,
• other Degree-Awarding Institutions,
• Monotechnics,
• Polytechnics,
• Innovation Enterprise Institutions and
• Colleges of Education are five (5) O’Level Credit passes including Mathematics and English Language. Details are available in the eBrochure which would be given to each Candidate at the accredited CBT centres and JAMB State-Offices.

 

Note: DE registration closes on the same date with UTME Application

 

Candidates with one of the following qualifications may be considered for admission by Direct Entry:

• A minimum of O’Level credit pass in five (5) SSCE subjects at not more than two sittings with at least two prescribed subjects [for each programme (course of study)] at Principal or Advanced level.

 

• Two passes (in prescribed subjects for each course of study) at the Advanced-Level Examination of IJMB, Cambridge, JUPEB or Institute of Baccalaureate with other 3 credits passes in SSSC

 

• Credit passes in two major subjects in the NCE with 3 other credit passes in SSSC NTC/NBC (mainly for Education/Technical programmes).

 

• Minimum of lower credit grade in National Diploma or National Innovation Diploma and the O’Level requirements

 

• DE CANDIDATES WILL BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THEIR JAMB REGISTRATION NUMBERS WITH WHICH THEY GAINED ADMISSION TO NCE/NID/DIPLOMA AND PREVIOUS DEGREE PROGRAMMES.

 

• REGISTRATION FOR DE CANDIDATES SHALL NOT BE EXTENDED BEYOND THE PERIOD ALLOTTED TO BOTH UTME/DE

 

CAVEAT: CANDIDATES SHOULD NOT APPLY FOR UTME AND DE AT THE SAME TIME. IF ANY CANDIDATE APPLIES THROUGH UTME AND LATER OBTAIN DE QUALIFICATION, THE UTME CAN BE UPGRADED TO DE AT NO COST.

Indeed it is a sanctionable infraction to obtain two application documents in the same year. Double/multiple registrations attract outright cancellation and prosecution.

JAMB 2022: Order of Choice of Institution

Every candidate is to note that the 1st choice can be a College of Education, University, Innovation Enterprise Institution, Polytechnic/Monotechnic, Nigerian Defence Academy or the Police Academy.

 

TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING

• Candidates are not permitted to register more than once. In the event of any error during registration process, such candidates are to seek correction from the Board and not to obtain a fresh application as doing so would attract sanction.
• Registration can only be done at the centres listed on JAMB Portal 2022 (http://www.jamb.gov.ng/) and pasted at JAMB offices across the country. Anybody who registers outside these centres does so at his/her risk.
• Non-candidates, including parents/guardians or any proxy is allowed to transact any business on any candidate’s profile. The registration process and all activities on candidates’ profile are being monitored by the Board and defaulters shall be severly sanctioned. Any candidate who makes his password, profile code or other security codes available to another person (parents, friends, tutorial teachers, fraudsters etc) is liable for any alteration done by such person(s).

 

• DO NOT GIVE YOUR PASSWORD TO ANYBODY INCLUDING JAMB OFFICIALS. These security codes are not to be demanded at any registration centre by any person for any purpose.

Steps for JAMB 2022 Registration

Profile Registration

• Every candidate will require the use of a unique phone (mobile) number (SIM) for the process of registration. The unique phone number can be used by one candidate only (Note: This number (SIM) remains your unique identification for all your transactions with the board)

 

• Candidate will send his/her National Identification Number (NIN) by text (SMS) to 55019 or 66019 from his/her personal GSM number e.g write the word “NIN” then space and add your 11 digit NIN Number and send to 55019 or 66019 in this format (NIN 00123456789).

 

• There should be a space between the word “NIN” and your 11 digit NIN (Note that the number must not have been used by another person to register for UTME/DE in the past). Do not use postpaid or special bundle SIM cards, They don’t work unless specially loaded with credit.

 

• A Profile Code of 10 characters is received by the candidate on the same telephone(SIM) number

 

• The phone number used for the text message is automatically tied to the candidate’s 2022 application, Examination and Admission. CANDIDATES SHOULD NOTE AND ALWAYS REMEMBER THE SIM NUMBER USED, IT IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE FOR SUBSEQUENT COMMUNICATION WITH THE BOARD

 

• BY OBTAINING UTME/DE APPLICATION DOCUMENTS, A CANDIDATE HAS ACCEPTED TO RECEIVE TEXT MESSAGES FROM JAMB (55019 or 66019) EVEN WHEN THE “DO NOT DISTURB” IS ACTIVATED

• Candidate will present the profile code at the point of procurement of form (Banks, MMOs, MFBs, Switches, USSD Partners). An ePIN is then sent as text message to the candidate’s Phone number
• Candidate will present the ePIN and profile code at any JAMB accredited CBT Centre for registration
• The application cannot be completed until the candidate’s biometric (all ten fingers) are captured and photograph taken physically (No submission of passport photograph). Successful capture of biometrics and photograph will authorize a candidate to print his/her e-registration slip. The finger print shall be required for any further transaction with JAMB on the candidates’ profile.
• Only candidates whose biometrics verification is successful on examination day will be permitted to sit the UTME. No parent or any proxy is allowed to make any transaction on the candidates’ profile.
• Candidates with biometric challenges can only register at JAMB headquarters Abuja. Arrangement will be made for this through JAMB state offices.

Challenges in Biometrics Biometrically challenged candidates can only register at the JAMB headquarters in Abuja. Such candidates will also sit for their examination at JAMB headquarters in Abuja, as no other center is permitted to register them. Candidates with biometric abnormalities must register and take the exam at the Board’s Abuja headquarters. The travels will be made easier by the Board.

Self help in case of mistake/loss of profile code

1. To retrieve a lost Profile Code, send [RESEND] to 55019 or 66019 as text message from the same mobile number
2. Candidate can reset lost or forgotten Profile Password on their registered cell phone by sending [password] space [email address] to 55019 or 66019 as a text message from the same mobile number

(FREE COMPLAINT) TICKETING For ALL complaints on JAMB processes, candidates can create a support ticket at (support.jamb.gov.ng) with his/her email address registered on the Board’s site. The candidate then provides his/her name, phone number and the nature of issue, select a complaint area on a drop down and then summarize the nature of complaint. He/she may also attach supporting documents (if available) then send. Complaints from 3rd parties are merely noted.

Letter writing is not encouraged. Rather all complaints should be channeled through the ticketing system for prompt attention and documentation.

For complaints relating to NIN (e.g a candidate sends a message to 55019 or 66019 to create a profile but does not receive any response or receives wrong data, he/she can follow the same process on the ticketing and click on 2022 NIN related issues then select the related topic on the drop down).

NOTE THAT YOUR PASSWORD SHOULD NOT BE RELEASED TO ANYONE. JAMB CAN ONLY HELP ON PROFILE-PASSWORD, NOT E-MAIL-BOX-PASSWORD. YOU CAN ALSO CHECK YOUR ADMISSION STATUS ON JAMB IBASS APP ON YOUR PHONE. DO NOT CHECK AT ANY CYBER CAFÉ THAT WOULD DEMAND YOUR PASSWORD WHICH IS THEN USED TO STEAL YOUR RECORDS. “TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED”

Candidates and the public are to note that nobody can help with admission or upgrade of scores; they would only deceive and defraud those who patronize fraudsters.

JAMB ePIN Selling Points

The ePIN outlets are:
i. NIPOST and other Participating Banks ( FIRSTBANK, JAIZ, Polaris, STERLING, TAJ, UNION and UNITY)

ii. Mobile money Operators/Microfinance Banks/Online Platforms listed below: Paga, e-Transact, TEASYPay, Packway Projects (Readycash) and Xpress payment solutions, Zazzau MFB, Capricorn Digital limited, cloud interactive Associates, Funds and electronic Transfer, Interswitch (Quickteller), Upperlink, Itex Integrated Services, System Specs (Remita) and Unified Payment Services (UPS), JAMB Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society, Digital Partners Network, payvantage, PayCom, Nomiworld and Cottage Assets and Global Accelerex

 

Foreign Candidates are to visit the Nigerian Embassy for guidance on how to apply in any of the following countries

•  Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire
• Accra, Ghana
• Addis Ababa, Ethopia
• Beau, Cameroun
• Cotonou, Benin Republic
• Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Johannesburg, South Africa
• London, United Kingdom
• Berlin, Germany

Duties of Participating Banks/outlets

• Collection of Profile Code from candidate’s phone
• Collect payment and vend ePIN by SMS to candidate’s phone (Not dictating or copying)
• Facilitation of payment through POS, if necessary
• Issuance of Evidence of Payment
• Delivery of ePIN to candidates electronically. (This should not be Handwritten)

Six Different Method of Payment for 2022 UTME Registration

Payment through Banks

Including Microfinance banks

• Present Profile Code and pay by cash or card
• ePIN is then delivered to the candidate’s unique telephone number

Payment through POS

This is available at State Offices of JAMB + CBT Centres, other POS outlets and any CBT Centre that demands it

• Present Profile Code and pay by card
• ePIN is then delivered to the candidate’s unique telephone number

Payment through mobile money operators

This is available at CBT Centres and Other Outlets

• Present Profile Code and pay by cash
• ePIN is then delivered to the candidate’s unique telephone number

Payment Using ATM

This is available on all ATM outlets of Participating Banks listed in 5C(I) (InterSwitch Channel)

• Select Bill Payment and then pick JAMB
• Enter Profile Code and pay
• ePIN is then delivered to the candidate’s unique telephone number

Online payment on JAMB portal

• Visit JAMB website: https://www.jamb.gov.ng/home
• Click Purchase of 2022 Application Document
• Enter your Profile Code
• Select payment method (InterSwitch or Remita)
• Make payment
• ePIN is then delivered to the candidate’s unique telephone number

Procedure for the eight foreign centres only is as follows:

• Registration fee for candidates from the eight foreign countries is $20 or its equivalent in each of the eight countries
• Candidates from the eight foreign countries are to download the Application from the Board’s website (www.jamb.gov.ng) complete and submit it with the fee at the eight designated centres as indicated on the website.

 

Foreign Candidates are to visit the following foreign missions;

• Nigerian Embassy in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire
• Nigerian High Commission Accra, Ghana
• Nigerian Embassy/permanent mission, Addis Ababa, Ethopia
• Nigerian Consulate, Beau, Cameroun
• Nigerian Consulate , Cotonou, Benin Republic
• Nigerian Consulate Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Nigerian Consulate, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Nigerian High Commission, London, United Kingdom

a) Registration fee for candidates from the eight foreign countries is $20 or its equivalent in each of the eight countries local currency

(b) Candidates from the eight foreign countries are to download the Application from the Board’s website (www.jamb.gov.ng) complete and submit it with the fee at the eight designated centres as indicated on the website.

OR

Foreign candidates visit www.jamb.gov.ng/efacility

1. create a profile
2. Login to the profile
3. On the menu on the left pane, click on 2022 Foreign UTME/DE registration
4. Go through guided questions until payment page
5. Make payment using any of the authorized cards
6. Complete the registration directly online

Offer of Free Application Documents

Any government, person or organization that wishes to distribute free application documents to prospective applicants is required to urgently procure the bulk e-pins from either JAMB or any approved sale outlets.

Candidates who want to enjoy any of these offers are advised to visit the sponsor’s designated banks or other e-PIN outlets (NOT ANY CBT centre) to collect the e-PIN after individually creating their profiles as illustrated above.

No refund would be made to any candidate if he/she had earlier purchased the application document before being offered free e-PIN. Such applicants should refrain from multiple registrations.

 

How to Recover Lost ePIN After Payment

1. If ePIN is not Received or Lost, send [UTMEPIN] or [DEPIN] to 55019 or 66019 for UTME or DE respectively from the unique number
2. The ePIN would then be retrieved and delivered on the candidate’s unique number

 

AFTER SUCCESSFUL PAYMENT AND OBTAINING ePIN, CANDIDATE SHOULD PROCEED TO ANY OF THE JAMB ACCREDITED CBT CENTRES TO COMPLETE HIS/HER REGISTRATION.

JAMB 2022 Registration Centers

In line with the Board’s regulated registration exercise, only the accredited Computer Based Test Centres and JAMB Offices will be allowed to register candidates.

How To Register 2022 UTME at CBT Centers

Candidates must PERSONALY present his/her profile code and e-PIN at any JAMB accredited CBT centre for registration. Candidate’s photograph and biometrics (all ten fingerprint) would be captured at the CBT centre

 

Candidates are to:

• Note that the service charge of N700 hitherto paid to CBT centres for registration (NOT MOCK) is now part of the registration fee as such,candidates are not to pay for registration. During registration, no other payment is required.
• Provide choice of institutions and programmes (course of study)
• Provide qualification with grades and dates, if not awaiting result
• Upload relevant certificates, if not awaiting result (this is applicable for both UTME and Direct Entry (DE) candidates
• Provide O/L and or A/L grades are to be provided by candidates. Candidates who are awaiting results should supply (upload) the results online on CAPS (JAMB) as soon as they are available on JAMB’s portal. No recommendations from any Institution will be considered by JAMB if the candidate has not uploaded his/her result on the portal of JAMB. No institution is allowed to take a new picture/photograph, biometrics or require any other upload of the result. All results are downloadable by institutions from the board’s website (and the download is tracked to avoid abuse)
• Supply JAMB registration number for previous institutional certificates for DE only
• Provide UTME subjects and choice of examination town(s) for
  (a) Mock examination (optional). For mock, candidates will pay the centre on the day of the mock exam.
  (b) Examination for UTME (actual examination)
• Review entries and confirm correctness
• Print Registration Slip USING BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION to confirm valid finger-print (UTME/DE). Note that authentication with your finger print removes blames of error from CBT centres. Candidates are to check before confirming with their finger prints
• Collect, at no other cost, the reading text and CD
• Collect the e-slip after registration as evidence of registration.

NOTE: There will be no offline registration, as all the accredited CBT centres have been empowered for real- time online registration. No candidate should register at any centre other than the accredited CBT centre and JAMB State-Offices. Any candidate who is registered outside approved centres will be identified and disqualified.

NOTE: There will be no offline registration, as all the accredited CBT centres have been empowered for real time online registration. No candidate should register at any centre other than the accredited CBT centre and JAMB State-Offices. Any candidate who is registered outside approved centres will be identified and disqualified.

 

BLIND CANDIDATES

Candidates who are blind are to indicate by typing BLIND and also picking the option of writing their examination through CBT mode or Read Examination Aloud. A candidate is either blind or sighted. It is important to be factual.

During registration, once a candidate indicates that he or she is blind, there would be a drop-down box for the candidate to select the town closest to his/her residence to write the exam.

The towns available for the blind candidates are as follows:

• Abuja, FCT;
• Bauchi, Bauchi State;
•  Benin, Edo State;
• Ekiti, Ekiti State;
• Enugu, Enugu State;
• Kano, Kano State;
• Kebbi, Kebbi State;
• Lagos, Lagos State;
• Oyo, Oyo State;
• Plateau, Plateau State;
• Yola, Adamawa State

 

DEAF/MUTE CANDIDATES

A special indicator for the deaf/mute has been created to differentiate them for special attention at the examination hall. Deaf candidates are therefore to confrm this appropriately during registration.

 

Candidates With Biometric Challenges

• Candidates with biometric challenges can only register at JAMB headquarters in Abuja.
• No other CBT centre is allowed to register such candidates
• They will also sit for their JAMB examination at JAMB headquarters in Abuja
• No candidate will be permitted to enter the examination hall or sit the examination if his/her biometrics is not verified.
• The system will not permit or process any examination without biometric verification
• Candidates with biometric abnormality can only register and take the examination at the JAMB Headquaters, Bwari Abuja. The Board will facilitate the travels of the candidates.

 

When is JAMB 2022 starting

2022 UTME Date & Venue

• The 2022 CBT EXAMINATION will commence on Saturday, 6th May and end on Sunday 15th, May, 2022.
• The venue of the examination will be at any centre in the candidate’s chosen examination town(s).

 

JAMB DOES NOT POST ANY CANDIDATE TO ANY EXAMINATION TOWN (OR GROUP OF TOWNS) OTHER THAN THE ONE CHOSEN BY THE CANDIDATE AT THE POINT OF REGISTRATION.

CANDIDATES ARE, HOWEVER, ADVISED TO REGISTER ON TIME BEFORE THE AVAILABLE SPACES IN THEIR TOWN OF CHOICE OR GROUP OF TOWNS ARE EXHAUSTED.

DUE TO DISCOVERED CONSPIRACY AMONG SOME CBT CENTRES, NO EXAMINATION TOWN WITH FEW CENTRES IS ALLOWED.

MANY TOWNS HAVE BEEN MERGED. NOTE THAT CHOICE OF A GROUP OF TOWNS IMPLIES THAT YOU CAN BE POSTED TO ANY OF THE TOWNS IN THE CHOSEN GROUP

 

2022 UTME Registration fee/procurement of Registration ePINS

Seven Hundred Naira (N700) is regulated and charged for CBT Centre service charge

• Registration Fee is Three Thousand Five Hundred (N3, 500) Naira Only. Additional Five Hundred (N500) Naira only, is paid to obtain the reading text “The Life Changer” by Khadija Abubakar Jali for UTME candidates and for DE candidates and $20 for Candidates from the eight foreign centres.
• A CD containing JAMB eSyllabus, eBrochure and other vital materials is also given free.
• Candidates should note that ePINS purchased are tied to individual profile and are not transferable
• Candidates are advised to keep as private and confidential their security details such as registration numbers, password/numbers of ATM Cards, email addresses and ePINs.

 

2022 UTME Mock Examination (Optional)

• The Board will also conduct a mock examination in all the accredited CBT centres to prepare and familiarise INTERESTED Candidates with the CBT environment. Interested candidates are advised to indicate their interest in the mock examination during registration provided they register early enough.
• The date for MOCK examination is Saturday 16th April, 2022.
• The CBT Centres are allowed to collect, through their bank accounts, a separate Seven Hundred Naira (₦700). only, for this exercise from only interested candidates. The payment for mock examination by the candidate shall be made to the centre to which the candidate is assigned after the notification of assigned centres for the mock examination. No Association or body is permitted to run any mock examination on behalf of JAMB.

DO NOT PAY FOR MOCK UNTIL JAMB ASSIGNS YOU TO A CBT CENTRE. NO ONE SHOULD PATRONISE FRAUDSTERS, MANY OF WHOM ARE NOW IN CUSTODY FOR DEFRAUDING PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES.

ONLY JAMB ACCREDITED CBT CENTRES CAN DO VALID REGISTRATION AND SERVE AS EXAMINATION CENTRES.

 

General Information for UTME and Direct Entry Candidates

• All candidates must mandatorily register their profiles through text messages as illustrated above before proceeding to buy the ePIN
• The registration fee is non-refundable
• TWO NEW SUBJECTS:  THE BOARD THIS YEAR HAS INTRODUCED COMPUTER STUDIES AND PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION AS UTME SUBJECTS

 

• CANDIDATES SITTING FOR THE UTME CAN NOW PICK COMPUTER STUDIES AND PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION AS PART OF THEIR FOUR UTME SUBJECTS IF THEY SO DESIRE AS DICTATED BY THEIR PROGRAMME PREFERENCE.

 

• Candidates are advised to read and understand the guidelines on admission and instructions on how to complete the online registration before commencing the process of registration. He or she is to also sign an MOU on ethical standards
• Multiple registrations are not allowed. Candidates who register more than once will be identified and disqualified and prosecuted.
• Candidates are to note that irrespective of their choice of programme of study, they will also be tested on a general text “The Life Changer” by Khadija Abubakar Jalli for UTME Candidates and DE candidates are also expected to read the text.
• Candidates/Officials would not be allowed to enter into the examination centre with earphones, wristwatches, mobile phones, electronic devices, or any pen/biro. Only common pencil is allowed
• Candidates are warned that the Board does not require nor authorise the services of ANY cyber cafe or establishment other than the accredited CBT centres for this exercise.
• Examination malpractice is a criminal offence that attractes in addition to cancellation of results, publication of names and prosecution of such offenders.

 

Registration Date for JAMB UTME 2022 Registration begins on Saturday, 19th February, 2022.

 

JAMB 2022 Application Closing Date

On Saturday, 26th March, 2022, PIN vending will come to an end.