How to Register for JAMB UTME 2026

Your profile code is the first thing you need. You cannot buy an e-PIN or register without it.

To generate a new profile code:

• Open your messaging app
• Type: NIN then a space then your 11-digit NIN. Example: NIN 12345678901
• Send it to 55019 or 66019
• JAMB will reply with your profile code

Use your own SIM if you have one registered in your name. If you do not, use a SIM that belongs to someone close to you like a parent, sibling, or close friend. The phone number you send from is permanently tied to your JAMB account. Avoid using a random SIM or any number that the owner might lose track of.

If you registered with JAMB in a previous year, you already have a profile code. Send the word RESEND to 55019 from the same number you used before and JAMB will send it back to you.

Read the full profile code guide →

The e-PIN is the code that activates your JAMB registration. Without it, no CBT centre can start your registration form.

Most CBT centres sell e-PINs on the spot. But that means joining a second queue before you can even start registration. Students who arrive during busy periods spend hours in the e-PIN queue before they even get to the registration queue.

If you buy your e-PIN before going to the centre, you skip that queue. You walk in, go straight to the registration queue.

Important things to know:

• It can only be used once
• Buy from an approved bank, a NIPOST office, a licensed mobile money agent, or Gift Consult
• Tell them whether you want UTME or Direct Entry. They have different e-PINs at different prices
• Do not buy from roadside vendors or people selling online without authorisation

If you end up with an invalid or already-used PIN, you cannot easily get a replacement when registration is busy. It is not a risk worth taking.

Gift Consult sells authentic JAMB e-PINs at the official JAMB rate through approved channels. Buy it from us before you go to the centre and skip the e-PIN queue.

This is where most students quietly ruin their entire registration without knowing it.

JAMB requires four subjects. English Language is always one of them. The other three must match what your intended course requires at your intended school.

Here is what happens when you get this wrong: you write the exam, score well, and then find out your subject combination does not match the requirements for your course. The school will not consider you. Not because your score was bad, but because you chose the wrong subjects. You wait a full year and start again.

This is not a small mistake. It happens to students every single year.

Every course has its own required combination. Medicine is different from Law. Law is different from Engineering. Engineering is different from Education. Before you sit at that CBT terminal, you need to know with certainty that the subjects you are choosing match your course.

At registration, you choose a first choice school and course, and a second choice. You can change these later through JAMB CAPS but it costs time and money.

Choosing the right school means knowing three things:

• The minimum cut-off for your specific course at that school. Not just JAMB's general minimum, but that school's own cut-off for that department.
• Whether your O'Level subjects match what that school requires for your course.
• Whether the score you are likely to get is actually competitive enough.

A student who scores 230 and applies to UNILAG Medicine which requires 280 has wasted that registration. A student who applies to a school whose O'Level entry requirements they don't meet gets disqualified at screening even after gaining admission.

Getting steps 3 and 4 right is the difference between your registration working and your registration being wasted.