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Many Candidates and Parents have been wondering how Jamb is Markets and How it is graded over 400 since Jamb Questions are not up to 400. Learn how Jamb is Marked and Scored.
It is absolutely true that Jamb has reduced the number of questions to be answered in the UTME. However, Jamb still scores each subject over 100%. Jamb Sets 60 English Questions and 40 Questions from other subjects.
You are simply answering 180 Questions in Jamb. These questions are marked by the computer according to the marks Jamb assigns to each subject.
The total score you can get in a subject is 100. The highest you can score in Jamb is 400. And the minimum you can score is above zero.
For example, if you are required to answer 40 questions in Mathematics and you were good enough to score 20 over 40 correctly, Your score will be divided by 40 multiplied by hundred percent (20/40×100 = 50). Then you have a Jamb scored of 50 in Mathematics.
Let’s See something below:
- Total Score Obtainable for Mathematics = 40 Marks
- Assuming your score in the subject = 30 Marks
- Provided each question carries equal mark
- Total percentage =100%
Your Jamb Score will be = (30/40)x100 = 75. Do you understand?
Now you may be asking, what if I score 40 over 40? The grading remains the same. Jamb will divide your 40 by 40 and multiply by 100. This will leave you with a score of 100%.
Does it apply to all Subjects? This calculation does not apply to Jamb use of English. Jamb English questions do no carry equal marks. Jamb comprehension passages usually carry more marks (Usually 3 marks each) than other questions.
In a case where Questions carry different marks, the total marks you scored will be divided by the total possible mark and multiplied by 100. This is to ensure that you don’t score above 100 in a subject. The Jamb Computer is programmed to do all that.
If there are five questions with 3 marks attached after each comprehension passages and Jamb decides to set two passages; then you will score 30 marks by answering only comprehension passages correctly. Other questions will then sum to 70 marks to complete 100 total marks.
How?
- One passage is five questions
- Two passages equal to 10 questions.
- One question carries 3 marks.
- 10 times 3 equals 30.
After the whole calculation, your mark will be divided by the total mark obtainable and multiplied by 100. This will give you your Jamb Score.
Hope you understood the Jamb Score Calculator above? Feel free to let me know how you feel using the comment box and don’t fail to share. Now, read how to score high with Jamb past questions.
Ibarahim Asmau says
I wrote my own on saturday afternoon on d 10th i havent seen my result uptil nw y?
morenikeji says
i dont understand how they calculated my own result,it was just amazing
Prince vikky says
What did u score
Anonymous says
na wa oh god help us
mustapha ibraheem bagudu says
me too i did’t
Mussolini says
do candidates who wrot on tuesday started seein thier resut
Mussolini says
i wrot on tuesday and my result is nt out
Thomywha says
Uhmm i do submit before d time but they already off their server hope nothing will happen
Lawal says
Wen will Tuesday result be out?
isah safeeyyah ibraheem says
my own jamb score is not out I wrote it on Saturday 9:00am
pex dami says
is jamb result done on 12th of march out
Anonymous says
if u were on d last paper English and ur system off not DAT ur time is gone but someone kicked d wire and d system off and no time wat will happen is there any chance of d person passing
abdulbasit says
multiply it by 100 and divide it by 40
Val says
Yesterday’s jamb was tough oo
Isaac Inegbenehi says
Did you really prepare for it?
Kimberly palma says
It really helped,I had 290 for medsurge
Suzzy says
Pls dear how was the exam and questions cos it seems u hv written success to your score,
How many questions are the other subject??
Suzzy says
Only if this is the method of marking it, I love it, read until something happens, God be with us at this Year jamb Amen. Shallom
Adeyinka kayshow says
now jamb set only 1 comprehension passage .. does that means one comprehension passage will carry 6marks for each question?
Suzzy says
Pls dear how was the exam and questions cos it seems u hv written success to your score,
How many questions are the other subject??
u failed jamb .org says
u will fail in the name of allah. alau akbar
No Need says
(M U M U) Like You, Ingrate ,Fool . I Hope You Have Not Been Offered Admission
Oriyomi says
If I score 39 in use of English wat will be my real score
Oriyomi says
If I score 39 in use of English wat will be my be my real score
Jasmine says
97.5
Anonymous says
No
Anonymous says
hw many marks each for the other subject apart from english
Anonymous says
100
Rhegan says
Who are the people that mark the jamb questions?
Isaac Inegbenehi says
It is marked by computer program
uwa says
Going by your formula, how does one explain a score of 59. If it means 59%, then what is the original score out of 40,
23.6? How do you explain the decimal? Since each question carries 1 mark.
Bassey Christopher says
Is this jamb percentage % also regarded as the jamb score?
CJ says
What if I score 17 in geography what gonna be my real score?
Helen says
I hate this method of scoring we students have more to loose.
boluwatife says
wat if I score 75 in English wat will be my real score
Isaac Inegbenehi says
The questions are not up to 75…. If you score 75, it means they have already converted it to percentage (which means you got 75%)
Anonymous says
75 multiply by 100 nd divided it by d question u answering on that subject
onuoha chijindu e says
Is it must that you will write mathematics by befor you qualify qualify to be an NDA,again is it possible for me use my waec result and apply for NDA?
Anonymous says
u can use your waec result to apply 4 NDA…..mathematics is compulsory