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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, adds new UTME subjects, Computer studies and Physical Health Education (PHE) to it’s syllables.
Computer studies and PHE would be added to the 23 already existing UTME courses making it 25 in total.
The 23 already existing UTME courses are Agricultural Science, Arabic, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Christian Religious Studies, Commerce, Economics, French, Geography, Government, Hausa, History, Home Economics, Igbo, Islamic Studies, Literature-in-English , Mathematics, Music, Physics, Principles of Accounts, Use of English and Yoruba.
The board gave this information via it’s weekly bulletin which was released by Dr Fabian Benjamin who is the director of public relations.
The bulletin said;
JAMB INTRODUCES COMPUTER STUDIES AND PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION AS UTME SUBJECTS
Candidates sitting the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) can now pick Computer Studies or Physical and Health Education as part of their four UTME subjects if they so desire or as dictated by their programme preferences.
This is made possible following the addition, by the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB), of the two subjects to the existing 23 UTME subjects to make them 25 beginning from the 2022 UTME exercise.
This addition is to enhance the career prospects of students transiting to tertiary institutions. At present, the 23 UTME subjects are :Agricultural Science, Arabic, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Christian
Religious Studies, Commerce, Economics, French, Geography, Government, Hausa, History, Home Economics, Igbo, Islamic Studies, Literature-in-English, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Principles of Accounts, Use of English and Yoruba.
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