How to pass JAMB excellently?

Hello guys, Am glad you are interested in learning how to pass JAMB exams excellently.

It’s heartwarming to know that at least there are still Nigerian youths who believe in climbing the ladder to success and not jumping over the fence.

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That's why as a JAMB candidate you need to learn what is required to pass JAMB excellently well and secure over 300 scores in the exams. As an ex-JAMB candidate, and an advisor to current candidates, I can assure you that technical as it may be, JAMB is one of the easiest examinations to pass with flying colours, if and only if you master the art behind it.

So to help you learn how to read and pass your JAMB exams, the guide below has everything you need to be successful in your upcoming exams and beyond, a step-by-step guide on how to do extremely brilliantly and make your results in one sitting in JAMB.

Without wasting any more time, let's get to the tips to pass JAMB. If you follow the steps I highlight below, trust me, you will score beyond your expectations in your exams and the rest, as they say, will be history.

How to pass JAMB 2020 excellently?

Set a goal

Have a reading schedule Get needed tools to prepare for JAMB Burn the night candles Practice Past questions Talk to experienced ones Fight fear Learn to manage time Arrive early at your centre Carefully read all instructions Be focused, avoid distractions Be positive Avoid cheating Meditate/Pray Now, let me explain each and everything you need to pass JAMB easily.

Do you want to pass JAMB excellently in Nigeria? If I may ask, what exactly is the score you are aiming at? 350? 320? 300? Or others? If you want to come out with flying colours in your JAMB examination, you need to set a goal as to the score you want to have.

You have to be very specific about this. If you want to score 350, set that goal. Then you will begin to work towards it. Without a goal, it is difficult for you to remain focused and charged up to pass your exams. So what is your goal for your JAMB EXAMS?

Have a plan

According to the dictionary, a plan is an orderly or step-by-step conception or proposal for accomplishing an objective. If you want to achieve anything in life, you must have a solid plan for that thing.

Having a plan for your JAMB exams means that you have to know the amount of time you have to read to be able to pass and achieve your goal (desired score).

Have a reading schedule How many days do you want to read in a week? How many hours do you want to read daily? How many textbooks do you want to finish cover to cover? How many past questions do you want to practice every day?

I will advise that if you seriously want to do well in your exams, you should have a daily reading schedule. You may want to read for at least five hours daily or something like that. It is left to you to choose the hours of the day that you will read.

Just make sure you have a plan and you follow it strictly if you want to achieve your desired score in your coming exams. Get the needed tools to prepare and pass JAMB What are the needed tools to prepare for JAMB?

They are: JAMB SYLLABUS (THE LATEST ONE)

JAMB RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS FOR ALL YOUR 4 SUBJECTS

OFFICIAL JAMB BROCHURE

JAMB PAST QUESTIONS (UP TO FIVE YEARS OR MORE)

GET A JAMB CBT APP (THIS WILL HELP YOU PRACTICE FOR YOUR EXAM BEFORE THE TIME AND LEARN THINGS LIKE TIME MANAGEMENT).

Burn the night candles

By burning the night candles, I mean you should read very rigorously. There are no two ways to pass JAMB questions easily than to commit yourself to diligent study.

The truth is, it’s very difficult for students to read seriously in this era of social media and the internet. But you must remember that there is time for everything.

To focus on your studies and come out with excellent grades in JAMB, you have to leave social media for a while.

Log out of your accounts if that will make you focus on reading. For some, they cannot read for long, if you are the type, try and read for as long as you can, take a break then come back to your books.

Make sure you go by your daily plan of reading. To help you find reading productive, avoid noisy areas when reading. Also, read in a clean, neat, serene, and well-lighted environment. Practice JAMB past Questions.

So, the thing is, JAMB does not have the luxury of time to start looking for new questions to set for new candidates every year. They simply take questions from past questions that have been asked in previous years.

So, to show JAMB that you are smarter, get past JAMB questions for as far as ten years and study them. If you can do this, you are surely on your way to passing excellently in your JAMB exams.

But whenever JAMB has changed the textbooks of study for subjects like Literature, you may come across new questions that are not in the past questions. These questions will be taken from the new literary books that are recommended, so, do well to read these pieces of literature.

Talk to experienced ones There are millions of people who have successfully written and passed JAMB once in Nigeria. Some of these people are looking to pass their knowledge to others. What you need to do is to look around you, is there anyone who has probably passed through this phase in life that can be of help to you?

It may be your older ones who are now in the universities themselves or your cousins or neighbours, just look around for people who can tell you more about the secrets of passing JAMB at a sitting. After all, Gilbert K. Chesterton once said: "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

Allow experienced people to pass their knowledge to you, don’t be shy or proud. Remove fear and conquer it Herman Melville once said, “Ignorance is the parent of fear.” In other words, if you are not ignorant, you do not have to be afraid.

So many people fail their JAMB exams because of fear. When they get to the exam hall, they begin to shiver, and then when the papers arrive, they cannot comport themselves. Fear leads to failure. The antidote to fear is knowledge.

To conquer fear and pass your JAMB exams excellently, you have to read and be well-prepared.

Then fear will fly away from you.

Learn time management

Even if you have studied and are 100% prepared for your JAMB exams, a lack of time management can render all your preparedness useless. One of the commonest causes of mass failure in JAMB is the lack of time management on the part of students.

But what is time management? Time management is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between specific activities. Good time management enables you to work smarter – not harder – so that you get more done in less time, even when time is tight and pressures are high.

So how can you manage your time in the JAMB exam hall? Simply by going for the questions that you know the answers to well first. Some people will spend a lot of time on one question that they do not know the answer to, thereby leaving out the questions that they know very well.

By the time they are still on the tough questions, their time will be ticking and before you know it, time is up. When you attempt to answer the easy question first, you may have some more time to deal with the tough questions.

Arrive early at your centre Lateness to the exam hall is the worse thing that can happen to any candidate. When you are late to your exam centre, you get disorganized, fidgety, scared, and even frustrated. You may even forget what you have spent time studying.

I have seen a situation where a JAMB candidate enters his exam centre late and it took the centre supervisor another 30 minutes to get a system and seat for him.

At the end of the day, when the exams were over, he had wasted thirty minutes of his time getting settled, and then when the results were out, he failed excellently. You don’t want to be like this young man.

Make sure you get to the exam venue at least two hours before the stipulated time for the exams to start. Settle down and do some quick revision before exams start.

Carefully read all instructions

Every year, hundreds of thousands of potential students fail JAMB not because they are not brilliant; not because they are not smart, but simply because they fail to read the instructions.

To avoid the failure that may be caused by not reading instructions, before you start to attempt any of the subjects in your JAMB exams, read all instructions carefully and understand what is required.

JAMB may ask you to do subtraction and addition but you may be quick to think the question is an equation if you do not carefully read the instructions. You may not realize your mistakes until after you have clicked submit and by then, it will be too late.

So, you must read ALL the instructions and know what you are required to do. Be focused, and avoid distractions If you want to pass your JAMB exams, avoid them as much as possible to avoid distractions. Wear modest clothes that will not distract you.

Do not wear heels to your exam centre. Avoid extremely long or full hairstyles that can distract you. Avoid being talkative before the exams too, etc. Be positive There is a popular saying that positive thinking is that which unlocks the doors of the world.

If you want to do well in anything in life, work on your mindset. Mindset matters. A positive mindset sets you on a track on success. Negative energy will only lead to failure.

So, if your goal is to score 320 in your JAMB or even more, have that mindset. Don’t think you can’t, you can! It's also important that you surround yourself with positive-minded hard-working goal-getters.

Always be in the company of people who have similar goals as you – to score over 300 in JAMB and pass at once.

Avoid exam Malpractices

Apart from the fact that you might be caught cheating and forfeit your admission into the university, cheating in the exam hall is like building your foundation on water, that means the building will crumble sooner or later.

If you believe in exam malpractices, your future is nothing but a joke, and the consequences of cheating will catch up with you. Instead of risking your life and future cheating in the exam hall, why not invest time in studying and preparing for your exams? If you put in the needed effort, trust me, you will pass your exams beyond your expectations.

Pray for help

Once you have followed the steps I discussed above, you are ready to pass your examination in the easiest way ever. But there is one other thing you need to do to crown your effort. You need to ask for help from the almighty.

Precisely, ask for help to remember the things you have studied, ask for help to answer the questions well and ask for blessings on your effort.