The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cautioned prospective candidates against costly errors when creating their profiles for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) or Direct Entry registration.
The board said one small mistake at the profile stage can create major problems later in the admission process.
JAMB made the caution in a new advisory video released under its “JAMB Explained” series and posted on its X handle on Wednesday.
The advisory, targeted at fresh candidates, flagged errors in names and dates of birth as mistakes that could cause problems during admission.
“Before you create your JAMB profile to register for the UTME or Direct Entry, take a moment and carefully check to confirm that your name, date of birth, and any other details linked to the NIN are correct. Why?” the board said.
It explained that candidates’ details are pulled from their records with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), the federal agency responsible for Nigeria’s National Identification Number system, and are not created or edited by JAMB itself.
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“That means if there’s any error with your name or date of birth, JAMB cannot change it after registration,” the board said.
JAMB also cautioned candidates against assuming that obtaining an affidavit, a sworn legal document sometimes used to explain discrepancies in personal records, would automatically lead to the correction of their records with the board.
The board stressed the importance of ensuring candidates’ identity details are accurate from the outset, noting that such information forms the basis of their entire academic record with JAMB.
Prospective candidates are urged to verify their NIN details are correct before proceeding to create their JAMB profile, which links a candidate’s biodata to the board’s database ahead of registration.
The advisory follows JAMB’s release of its full 2026 UTME registration guidelines earlier in the year, which similarly directed candidates to correct any inconsistencies in their NIMC records before generating a profile code, since the code, once created, cannot be changed.
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