JAMB UTME: May 6 - Exam Experience and Questions

The JAMB UTME has commenced and and candidates scheduled to sit for the exam on 6th and 7th has done so. Though there were challenges at some centers that led to rescheduling of the exam for some candidates whose CBT centers had technical issues that prevented the conduct of the examination. Some candidates shared their experience with us and I wish to share these experiences with you.

Let's start with Ebuka's experience.

Ebuka: I had jamb on the 6th of May, there were 180 questions in total.

My examination center was at State Primary School 1, Borokiri Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The exam was scheduled to start by 7 am although we did not start by 7 am. I got there by 6 am. Before entering the school premises we were searched thoroughly. we went in with only our registration slip, pencil, eraser, and sharpener. we didn't actually sanitize or wash our hands but we put on face masks. After all the necessary procedures like search, biometric verification, etc, we were told to stay in one of the classrooms. we waited for more than an hour before one of the invigilators came into the waiting room to instruct us on what to do when we got into the auditorium (examination hall) and how to use the computer for the test. We were allowed to use the restroom before going into the examination hall.

When we got in, we were instructed to sit according to our seat numbers as indicated on our examination slip and we are not to touch anything (computer) until we were told to. The invigilators changed the sitting position of some candidates that had faulty computers or network issues. When all the candidates were ready, we were told to enter our registration number in the text box and click on "Candidate login" to start the examination.

There were CCTV cameras at strategic corners of the hall and there were more than 5 invigilators in the hall. They warned us against examination malpractice. Even at that, 3 candidates were sent out of the hall because they didn't adhere to the instructions given to us about examination malpractice.

For Use of English, there were some errors, for the synonyms and antonyms, some of the questions did not have instructions, and we didn't know if we were to give the nearest meaning or nearly opposite of the words. The words for synonyms and antonyms were Malevolence, frivolous, accent, bogus, complacent, august, mutual, repealed, humdrum, impertinent, sagacity, hat-trick, etc. When I told one of the invigilators about the error, he told me to skip the questions and save my time.

Other parts of Use of English: there was a comprehension passage about man and mosquito. the questions were pretty easy to answer. we were given the normal lexis and structure where you have a passage and you are expected to fill in the gaps. the passage was about reading writing listening and speaking (literacy skills). We were also given word stress (characterize and continental), emphatic stress, and sentence interpretation

questions from the life changer (in no particular order):

1. what was the reason for ummi's impromptu barging

2. what was omars utme score

3. what question did bint ask her french teacher

4. how was zaki arrested

5. how much did habib give Tomiwa

6. how much did habib tell Tomiwa to give her roommates each

7. how much did Salma give Kabir to clean up her mess

8. who introduced the snail delicacy

9. what made Habib know Tomiwa was not Salma

10. who were the men in the Benz that picked up Salma

For Biology, the questions were from; transport system, genetics, excretory system, ecology, adaptation, reproductive system, digestive system, evolution, etc.

For Physics, the questions were from; energy quantization, forces, heat transfer, and heat change, R LC circuits, A.C circuits, waves, electrolysis(copper), gas laws ( Charles law), dimensions and units, etc.

For Chemistry, the questions were from; gas laws ( Charles law), particulate nature of matter, water, air, electrolysis, acid bases and salts, metals, non-metals, organic chemistry, etc.

A candidate offering Arts shared some questions from the three major arts subjects - GOvernment, Literature, and Christian Religious Studies.

Literature

Look back in anger

1. Jimmy porter portrays that of? Anger and frustration

2. Who showed the theme of betrayal? Helena

3. What were the two objects shown in the first scene? A jazz trumpet and a clock

Second class citizen

1. The text is a...

2. Which of these a predominant in the play? A) marriage b) divorce c) political

Wuthering heights

1. Wuthering height is a name of....? House

2. The setting of the poem is wuthering heights and thussgross granch

3. Why did Hindley start drinking?

4. The main aim of Heathcliff was to get? Revenge

Figures of speech were given

Unseen prose

(It talked about a man who dreamt of eating a shoe and woke up to see that he was actually eating a shoe)

The questions asked under this were

1.) the type of imagery used above is what?

2. The grief land: who inflicted grief in the land?

3. Songs of the women in our land: the women were being oppressed by?

4. The leader and the led: the poem illustrated what?

5. The government driver: the driver shows his years of service as?

Lion and the jewel

1. How old was lakunle?

2. What did lakunle seize from sidi?

3. Who was Baroka's first wife

4. Who was referred to as the lion and the jewel in the novel?

5. Then figures of speech and types of poems

Government

1. The type of government that deals with hereditary is?

2. The type of government deals with the few best people to run for election is?

3. The head of the Yoruba precolonial system is?

4. When did the civil war end?

5. Who is recognized as the father of the colony?

6. What is a franchise?

7. The type of government based on land ownership is?

8. The type of government that has ruled for ancient days is?

9. in 1996, how many states did Nigeria have?

I can’t remember the options or the exact same way it was asked

More questions were asked on these topics

• Precolonial rule

• Confederal

• Communism

• The monarchical system of government

• Totalitarianism

• Autocracy

• authority

• power

• Legitimacy

• 1979 reform

• anonymity of civil service

CRS

1. What did God promise Abraham?

2. What was Moses supposed to do before smiting the rock?

3. According to Peter? Christians should always use their spiritual gifts for?

4. The greatest law is about? Love

5. If a man takes down his own life for another, that man has shown?

6. Betshadah was washing her uncleanliness when David called for her, this means that betshadah was...

7. Ananias and saphriah showed.... in the Bible? Lies and greed

8. During the killing of babies when Jesus was born his parents took him to _____ to be saved. Ans: Egypt

9. The Egyptian feared the Israelites because?

10. The story of Jonah shows that?

11. Being baptized into Christ means being baptized into?

More topics that came out which I can’t remember the questions are:

The story of Josiah, David, teachings of Paul and Peter) triumphant of Jesus

Good luck to all candidates that are yet to sit for UTME. The candidates couldn't remember most questions but I hope this can serve as a guide to your revision.