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How Jamb Is Marked And Scored

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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.

 

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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.

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121 Comments

  1. Gud evening sir how can i score high in jamb

    • Read ur books

  2. Since in utme English only one comprehension is given, will it still be 3marks for each correct comprehension?

  3. Please those that are going to write on the first day that is (june19) should please help us with the questions they remembered and the blog owner should compile them to make a post and give solution to the questions:(

    • You are making sense please guys what do you say to this?

  4. Thanks

  5. Good evening sir,I thought jamb score will be deducted if a question is answered wrong,so some students prefer not to answer an unknown question than answer on guessing that can reduce mark,why is that so ,sir
    Thanks

    • No negative marking !

  6. God bless u

  7. Morning sir , pls what is the subject combination for political science

  8. How come people get 99 and other odd score 91

    • He just explained that in the post that English questions carry three marks and three is an odd number so failing a question can prompt a odd score noted!?

  9. Pls sir I want to study medicine and surgery
    So pls I would like to know the subject combination and my cut off mark

    • chemistry
      biology
      physics
      English

  10. Please sir I don’t have an Instagram account so sir please help me because I don’t have money to further and it’s only a Facebook account that I have
    I’m from akwa ibom and I reside in uyo

  11. I want to be a computer programmer which subject should pass

  12. Pls Sir what is my subject combination I want to study medicine and my cut of Mark

  13. From what you’ve written above question in every subject apart from use of English carries 2.5 marks. So how in the name of God can someone score 74,91 or even 89 in a subject.

  14. Sir. i want you to ask question and my questions goes like this. I bought jamb form and I my first choice was Mass com. My second choice was English. My third choice was Mass com as well. Till the next they day. I heard from the news no Mass com. And my subject combination was English, litrature, government and Yoruba. Sir what do you think I can do sir. Thanks

  15. Pls sir
    What re the subject I should study for computer science

    • Maths English physics and chemistry

      • I saw English Maths Physics and Biology somewhere, am also a Comp Sci student but what u typed that’s what I also choose and I later heard about that one I typed just now

        • I also saw I eng,math,phy and agric

        • Yea

    • Please sir subject combination for Estate Management

  16. Pls sir jamb combination of political science

  17. Good morning sir , pls whats the subject combination for medicine

    • English, chemistry, biology, physics

    • Please sir, what’s the subject combination for microbiology

  18. I samson akangbe How to download jamb questions and answer to my mobile phone

  19. Please sir what are the JAMB subject combination for microbiology?

    • English
      Physics
      Biology
      Chemistry

      • Jamb said total score 130 is it also means ur cutt off mark i.e 130/400

  20. Oh I got 198

  21. Can’t they help us by adding more marks for us

  22. Wow,thank God,I had,290in jamb,going for medsurge

    • Wish u best of luck, I swear u really tried

    • Please what are the materials you use

  23. thanks for the info.But do calculations also attract higher marks？

  24. What kind of exams is this.

  25. When will the result be released. They should let us know our fate na