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JAMB UTME Mock Test 2026
A free JAMB UTME practice series covering Use of English plus science, commercial and arts subject combinations. The paper runs 180 questions in 120 minutes for 400 marks on a single composite timer. Every JAMB online test here is free to attempt and scores instantly.
Use of English is a third of your questions and a quarter of your marks. It is 60 compulsory questions worth 100 marks, which is about 1.67 marks each, while every one of your three chosen subjects packs 100 marks into just 40 questions, or 2.5 marks each. A chosen-subject question is therefore worth half as much again as a Use of English question, and with one composite 120-minute clock and no per-subject lock, you decide where the minutes go. Labouring over a hard Use of English item while easier chosen-subject questions sit unattempted is the expensive trade. There is no negative marking either, so leave nothing blank: sweep the paper at the end and answer everything you did not reach.
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Official review pendingEvery candidate sits Use of English plus three subjects chosen to match the course applied for, so there is no single national subject list. The seven subjects listed above are the ones this site covers, offered as three combinations: science (Use of English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry), commercial (Use of English, Mathematics, Economics, Government) and arts (Use of English, Literature in English, Government, Economics). Any one candidate sits four of them. The overall shape of the paper (180 questions, 60 in Use of English and 40 in each of the other three, two hours, 400 marks scaled across the four subjects at 100 each, and no penalty for a wrong answer) is consistently reported across multiple independent current sources. The official JAMB brochure could not be independently read in this environment: jamb.gov.ng is unreachable from the network this site is built on. Status is marked review-pending for that reason, and stays there until the primary source is read. Literature in English is built only in part: the general literary principles portion, meaning literary terms, figures of speech, genres and forms, prosody and the appreciation of unseen passages. Questions on the prescribed drama, prose and poetry texts are excluded, because those texts rotate by cycle and writing questions on them would mean asserting the content of books that could not be verified here. The recommended novel is excluded from the Use of English paper for the same reason. A candidate offering Literature should treat this site as covering part of that paper only. Within Government and Economics, current officeholders, current statistics and recent policy are excluded, and the questions are confined to settled constitutional, institutional, historical and analytical content.
Frequently asked questions
How many JAMB UTME mock tests are available here?
This page currently has 10 syllabus-checked tests for JAMB UTME: 3 full-length mocks, and 7 sectional tests.
How long does a JAMB UTME mock test take?
A full-length JAMB UTME mock here runs 120 minutes, matching the official working time for the paper it reproduces. The timer starts when you begin and the test submits itself when time runs out, so it is worth starting one only when you can sit it through. The shorter tests on this page run from 27 minutes, for when you do not have a full sitting free.
Do these JAMB UTME mock tests have negative marking?
No. JAMB UTME carries no penalty for a wrong answer, so every test here scores a wrong answer and an unanswered one the same way, at zero. There is no reason to leave a question blank.
Should I start with a full-length JAMB UTME mock or a sectional test?
Start with a full-length mock if you have not sat the whole JAMB UTME paper under its official timer before: it is the only thing here that tells you whether you can finish in time. Move to the 7 sectional tests once the full mock has shown you which section is costing you marks, and use them to rebuild that one section rather than re-sitting the whole paper each time.
Are these JAMB UTME mock tests free?
Yes. All 10 JAMB UTME tests on this page are free to attempt, with no account and no paid tier holding back better questions.