JAMB
Nigeria 🇳🇬JAMB UTME — compulsory Use of English plus 14 subjects to choose from, each with its own Beginner–Advanced track.
📏 UTME is scored out of 400 (Use of English + 3 chosen subjects, 100 marks each). Most universities set 180+ as the general cut-off; competitive courses need 250+.
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Use of EnglishMathematicsPhysicsChemistryBiologyGovernmentEconomicsLiterature-in-EnglishChristian Religious StudiesIslamic Religious StudiesGeographyAccountingCommerceAgricultural ScienceFrench
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Beginner
Beginner skill
Comprehension and vocabulary foundations — the reading skills every UTME candidate needs first.
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StartComprehension Passages
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Sentence Completion
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🔒 After lessonsLexis & Usage
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Word Meanings & Register
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Closest in Meaning
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Word Classes and Their Functions
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Intermediate
Intermediate skill
Inference, grammar and oral English — the structure and sounds UTME's Use of English repeats every year.
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🔒 After lessonsComprehension & Inference
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Making Inferences
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Details & Evidence
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Cloze Tests: Filling Gaps in a Passage
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The Prescribed Reading Text: Plot, Characters, Setting and Themes
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🔒 After lessonsEnglish Structure
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Subject–Verb Agreement
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Tense Consistency
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Clause and Sentence Patterns
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Degree of Comparison and Question Tags
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Advanced skill
Advanced English and critical reading — the skills that win high UTME Use of English scores.
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- Comprehension passage: description or narration (main idea, details, deductions and inferences)Comprehension Passages →Making Inferences →
- Comprehension passage: exposition (main idea, details, deductions and inferences)Comprehension Passages →Making Inferences →
- Comprehension passage: argumentation/persuasion (writer's purpose, attitude, tone and logical reasoning)Author's Purpose →Critical Reasoning →
- Summary: the main point or best summary of a passage or paragraphComprehension Passages →
- Words and idioms as used in a passage (meaning in context)Word Meanings & Register →
- Cloze test: filling gaps in a passage with the contextually and grammatically appropriate wordCloze Tests: Filling Gaps in a Passage →
- Prescribed UTME reading text (the current JAMB novel): plot, characters, setting and themesThe Prescribed Reading Text: Plot, Characters, Setting and Themes →
- Synonyms: word or phrase nearest in meaning to the underlined word in a sentenceWord Meanings & Register →Closest in Meaning →
- Antonyms: word or phrase opposite in meaning to the underlined word in a sentenceAntonyms & Usage →
- Sentence interpretation: ordinary, figurative and idiomatic usage (meaning of sentences, idioms and figures of speech)Sentence Interpretation: Figurative and Idiomatic Meaning →
- Clause and sentence patterns (simple, compound, complex sentences; types and functions of clauses)Clause and Sentence Patterns →
- Word classes and their functions (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions)Word Classes and Their Functions →
- Mood, tense and aspect (sentence completion)Sentence Completion →Tense Consistency →
- Number and agreement/concord (subject–verb, pronoun–antecedent)Subject–Verb Agreement →
- Degree (positive, comparative, superlative) and question tagsDegree of Comparison and Question Tags →
- Prepositions, phrasal verbs and collocations in sentence completionSentence Completion →
- Mechanics: spelling, punctuation and capitalisationPunctuation & Style →
- Vowels: monophthongs, diphthongs and triphthongs (identifying vowel sounds)Vowel Sounds: Monophthongs, Diphthongs and Triphthongs →
- Consonants, including consonant clusters (identifying consonant sounds)Consonant Sounds and Consonant Clusters →
- Rhymes, including homophonesRhymes and Homophones →
- Word stress in monosyllabic and polysyllabic wordsWord Stress in English Words →
- Emphatic stress in connected speechEmphatic Stress in Connected Speech →
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