The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has introduced computer studies and health education as part of its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) subjects.
This comes almost a week after the examination body released a timetable for the UTME and the Direct Entry (DE) registration and examination.
This is contained in JAMB’s weekly bulletin released by the Director of Public Relations, Dr Fabian Benjamin on Monday, in Abuja.
JAMB noted that candidates sitting for the UTME could now pick Computer Studies or Physical and Health Education as part of the four required UTME subjects, if they wanted or as dictated by their programmes.
The examination body said the 2 new subjects is in addition to the existing 23 UTME subjects, which brings the total number of subjects to 25, and are scheduled to commence from the 2022 UTME exercise.
The board said the new subjects would enhance the career prospects of students seeking admission in tertiary institutions.
Apart from the newly added subjects, the others include Agricultural Science, Arabic, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Christian Religious Studies, Commerce, Economics, French, Geography, Government, Hausa, History and Home Economics.
Others are: Igbo, Islamic Studies, Literature in English, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Principles of Accounts, Use of English and Yoruba.
JAMB had announced that the UTME/DE would now hold from May 6, 2022, to May 16, 2022, while the mock UTME exercise earlier scheduled for April 2, 2022, will now hold on April 16, 2022.
The registration date for the UTME/DE is still February 12, 2022, while it ends March 19, 2022.
