Updated JAMB Syllabus For All Subjects 2025/2026 | Approved

Are you preparing for the JAMB 2025 exam? If yes, then you’re probably wondering how to make the most out of your study time.

One of the most important things you can do is to check out the official JAMB syllabus for 2025. Why? Because it shows you exactly what you need to study and helps you focus on the most important topics. Instead of wasting time on things that won’t be on the exam, the syllabus guides you in the right direction.

In this blog post, we’ll explain everything you need to know about the JAMB 2025 syllabus, why it’s so important, and how you can use it to create the best study plan for yourself.

Whether you’re just starting to study or you’re already deep into your preparation, understanding the syllabus will be a big step towards reaching your goal. Let’s take a closer look and get you ready for success!!

What is the JAMB Syllabus and Why is it Important?

The JAMB syllabus is a guide created by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Nigeria. It lists the topics and areas students need to study for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The syllabus is important because it helps students focus on the exact topics they’ll be tested on, saving time and effort. Without it, students might study unnecessary things or miss out the areas of concentration  It also gives a sense of direction and boosts confidence, knowing you’re preparing the right way.

JAMB Syllabus For All Subjects 2025/2026

Below are the approved JAMB syllabus for all the jamb subject for the 2025/2026 UTME examination;

JAMB Syllabus For All Subjects BIOLOGY 2025/2026

Below is the newly approved JAMB Syllabus foe BIOLOGY for the 2025/2026 session.

SECTION A: JAMB syllabus for Biology – Living Cells and Organization

1. Living Organisms

• Characteristics
• Cell structure and functions of cell
• Level of organization:

1. Cell e.g euglena and paramecium
2. Tissue e.g epithelial tissues and hydrocarbons
3. Organ e.g oinon bulb
4. Systems e.g reproductive, digestive and excretory
5. Organisms e.g Chlamydomonas

2. Evolution among the following

• Monera (prokaryotes), e.g. bacteria and blue green algebra
• Protista (protozoans and protophyta), e.g Amoeba, Euglena and Paramecium.
• Fungi e.g. Mushroom and Rhizopus
• Plantae (Plants):

1. thallophyta (e.g Spirogyra)
2. Bryophyta (mosses and liverworts) e.g. Brachmenium and Merchantia
3. Pteridophyta (ferns) e.g. Dryopteris
4. Spermatophyta (Gmnospermae and Angiospermae):

• Gymnosperms e.g Cyads and conifers.
• Angiosperms (monocots, e.g. maize; dicots, e.g. Water leaf)
• Animalia(animals):

1. Invertebrates:

• coelenterate e.g hydrocarbons
• Platyhelminthes flatworm e.g Taenia
• Nematoda (roundworms)
• Annelida e.g earthworm
• Arthropoda e.g mosquito, cockroach, housefly, bee, butterfly
• Mollusca e.g snails

2. Multicellular animals (vertebrates):

• Pisces (cartilaginous and bony fish)
• Amphibia e.g toads and frogs
• Reptilia e.g lizards, snakes and trutles
• Aves (birds)
• Mammalia (mammals)

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• JAMB syllabus for all Courses.
• Approved JAMB Subject Combination for All Courses 2025/2026 Updated

Structural/functional and behavioural adaptations of organisms:

• Adaptive coloration and its functions
• Behavioural adaptations in social animals
• Structural adaptations in organisms
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SECTION B: JAMB Syllabus for Biology – Form and Functions

1. Internal structure of plants and animals

• Internal structure of a flowering plants:

1. Root
2. Stem
3. Leaf

• Internal structure of a mammals

2. Neutralization

• Modes of nutrition:

1. Autotrophic
2. Heterotrophic

• Types of Nutrition
• Plant nutrition:

1. Photosynthesis
2. Chemosynthesis
3. Mineral requirements (macro and micro-nutrients)

• Animal nutrition:

1. Classes of food substances; carbohydrates, proteins, fats and oils, vitamins, mineral salts and water
2. Food tests (e.g. Starch, reducing sugar, protein, oil, fat etc)
3. The mammalian tooth (structures, types and functions)
4. Mammalian alimentary cardinal
5. Nutrition process (ingestion, digestion, absorption, and assimilation of digested food)

3. Transport

• Need for transportation
• Materials for transportation (Excretory products, gases, manufactured food, digested food, nutrient, water and hormones)
• Channels for transportation:

1. Mammalian circulatory system (heart, arteries, vein and capillaries)
2. Plant vascular system (phloem and xylem)

• Media and processes of mechanism for transportation

4. Respiration

• Respiratory organs and Surfaces
• The mechanism of gaseous exchange in:

1. Plants
2. animals

• Aerobic Respiration
• Anaerobic Respiration

Excretion

• Types of excretory structures:
  

  Contractile vacuole, flame cell, nephridium, Malpighian tubule, Kidney, Stoma and lenticel.

• Excretory mechanisms:

1. Kidneys
2. Lungs
3. Skin

• Excretory products of plants

6. Support and movement

• Tropic, tactic, nastic and sleep movements in plants
• Supporting tissues in animals
• Types and functions of the skeleton:

1. Exoskeleton
2. Endoskeleton
3. Functions of the skeleton in animals

7. Reproduction

• Asexual reproduction:

1. Fission (e.g. Paramecium)
2. Budding (e.g. yeast)
3. Natural vegetative propagation
4. Artificial vegetative propagation

• Sexual reproduction in Flowering plants:

1. Floral parts and their function
2. Pollination and fertilization
3. Products of sexual reproduction

• Reproduction in mammals:

1. Structures and functions of the male and female reproductive organs
2. Fertilization and development (Fusion of gametes)

8. Growth

• Meaning of growth
• Germination of seeds and condition necessary for germination of seeds

9. Co-ordination and control

• Nervous coordination:

1. The components, structure and functions of the central nervous system
2. The components and functions of the peripheral nervous system
3. Mechanism of transmission of impulses
4. Reflex action

• The sense organs:

1. Skin (tactile)
2. Nose (olfactory)
3. Tongue (taste)
4. Eye (sight)
5. Ear ( auditory)

• Hormonal control:

1. Animal hormonal system (Pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal gland, pancrease, gonads)
2. Plant hormones (phytohormones)

• Homeostasis

1. Body temperature regulations
2. Salt and water regulation

SECTION C: JAMB Syllabus for Biology – Ecology

1. Factors affecting the distribution of Organisms

1. Abiotic
2. Biotic

Symbiotic interaction of plants and animals

• Energy flow in the ecosystem: food chains, food webs and trophic levels
• Nutrient cycling in nature:

1. Carbon cycle
2. Water cycle
3. Nitrogen cycle

3. Natural Habitats

• Aquatic (e.g. ponds, streams, lakes, seashores and mangrove swamps)
• Terrestrial/arboreal (e.g. tree-tops, abandoned farmland or a dry grassy (savnna) field, and borrow or hole)

4. Local (Nigerian) Biomes

• Tropical rainforest
• Guinea savanna (southern and northern)
• Sudan savanna
• Desert
• Highlands of montane forests and grasslands of the Obudu, Jos,  Mambilla – Plateaus.

5. The Ecology of populations

• Population density and overcrowding
• Adaptation for survival:

1. Factors that bring about competition
2. Intra and inter-specific competition
3. Relationship between competition and succession

• Factors affecting population sizes:

1. Biotic (food, pest, disease, predation, competition and reproductive ability)
2. Abiotic (temperature, space, light, rainfall, topography, pressure, PH) etc.

• Ecological succession:

1. Primary succession
2. Secondary succession

6. Soil

• Characteristics of different types of soil (sandy, loamy, clayey):

1. Soil structure
2. Porosity, capillarity and humus content

• Components of the soil

1. Inorganic
2. Organic
3. Soil air
4. Soil water

• Soil fertility:

1. Loss of soil fertility
2. renewal and maintenance of soil fertility

7. Humans and Environment

• Diseases:

1. Common and endemic Diseases
2. Easily transmissible diseases and disease syndrome such as: poliomyelitis, cholera, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases/syndrome (gonorrhea, syphilis, AIDS, etc)

• Pollution and its control:

1. Sources, types, effects and methods of control
2. Sanitation and sewage

• Conservation of Natural Resources
• Game reserves and National parks

SECTION D: JAMB syllabus for Biology – Heredity and Variations

1. Variation in Population

• Morphological variations in the physical appearance of individuals:

1. Size (height and weight)
2. Color (skin, eye, hair, coat of animals, scales and feathers)
3. Fingerprints

• Physiological variation:

1. Ability to roll Tongue
2. Ability to taste phenylthiocarbamide (PTC)
3. Blood groups

• Application of discontinuous variation in crime detection, blood transfusion and determination of paternity

2. Heredity

• Inheritance of characters in organisms:

1. Heritable characters
2. Non-heritable characters

• Chromosomes- the basis of heredity

1. Structure
2. Process of transmission of hereditary characters from parents to offspring
3. Probability in genetics and sex determination
4. Application of the principles of heredity in: (i) Agriculture (ii) Medicine

• Sex – linked character e.g. baldness, haemophilia, colour blindness, etc

SECTION E: JAMB Syllabus for Biology – Evolution

1. Theories of evolution:

1. Lamarck’s theory
2. Darwin’s theory
3. Organic theory

JAMB Syllabus For All Subjects- Chemistry

Below is the newly approved JAMB Syllabus for CHEMISTRY for the 2025/2026 session.

SECTION A: JAMB Syllabus For Chemistry- Separation of Mixtures and Purification of Chemical Substances

(a) Pure and impure substances
(b) Boiling and melting points
(c) Elements, compounds and mixtures
(d) Chemical and physical changes
(e) Separation processes:
– Evaporation, simple and fractional distillation,
– sublimation, filtration, crystallization, paper and column chromatography, simple and fractional crystallization, magnetization, decantation.

OBJECTIVES

Candidates should be able to:

(i) distinguish between pure and impure substances;(ii) use boiling and melting points as criteria for purity of chemical substances;(iii) distinguish between elements, compounds and mixture;

(iv) differentiate between chemical and physical changes;

(v) identify the properties of the components of a mixture;

(vi) specify the principle involved in each separation method; and

(vii) apply the basic principle of separation processes in everyday life.

SECTION B: JAMB Syllabus For Chemistry– Chemical Combination

(a) Laws of definite, multiple and reciprocal
(b) proportions, law of conservation of matter, Gay Lussac’s law of combining volumes,
(c) Avogadro’s law; chemical symbols, formulae, equations and their uses, relative atomic mass based on 12C=12, the mole concept and Avogadro’s number and stoichiometry of reactions.

OBJECTIVES

Candidates should be able to:

(i) perform simple calculations involving formulae, equations/chemical composition and the mole concept;

(ii) deduce the chemical laws from given
expressions/statements/data;

(iii) interpret graphical representations related to these laws; and

(iv) deduce the stoichiometry of chemical reactions.

SECTION B: JAMB Syllabus For Chemistry- Kinetic Theory of Matter and Gas Laws

(a) Phenomena to support the kinetic theory of matter using:(i) melting,
(ii) vapourization
(iii) boiling
(iv) freezing
(v) condensation in terms of molecular motion and Brownian
movement.

(b) (i) The laws of Boyle, Charles, Graham and Dalton (law of partial pressure); combined gas law, molar volume and atomicity of gases.
(ii) The ideal gas equation (PV = nRT).
(iii) The relationship between vapour density of gases and the relative molecular mass.

Candidates should be able to:

(i) apply the theory to distinguish between solids, liquids and gases;(ii) deduce reasons for change of state;(iii) draw inferences based on molecular motion;

(iv) deduce gas laws from given
expressions/statements;

(v) interpret graphical representations related to these laws; and

(vi) perform simple calculations based on these laws, equations and relationships.

SECTION C: JAMB Syllabus for Chemistry- Atomic Structure and Bonding

(a) (i)The concept of atoms, molecules and ions, the works of Dalton, Millikan, Rutherford, Moseley, Thompson and Bohr.(ii) Atomic structure, electron configuration, atomic number, mass number and isotopes; specific examples should be drawn from elements of
atomic number 1 to 20.(iii) Shapes of s and p orbitals.

(b) The periodic table and periodicity of elements, presentation of the periodic table with a view to recognizing families of elements e.g. alkali metals, halogens, the noble gases and transition metals. The variation of the following properties: ionization energy, ionic radii, electron affinity and electronegativity.

(c) Chemical bonding.
Electrovalency and covalency, the electron
configuration of elements and their tendency to attain the noble gas structure. Hydrogen bonding and metallic bonding as special types of electrovalency and covalency respectively; coordinate bond as a type of covalent bond as illustrated by complexes like [Fe(CN)6] 3- , [Fe(CN)6] 4- , [Cu(NH3)4] 2+and [Ag(NH3)2] + ; van der Waals’ forces should be mentioned as a special type of bonding forces.

(d) Shapes of simple molecules: linear ((H2, O2, C12, HCl and CO2), non-linear (H2O), tetrahedral; (CH4) and pyramidal (NH3).

(e) Nuclear Chemistry:

(i) Radioactivity – Types and properties of
radiations

(ii) Nuclear reactions. Simple equations,
uses and applications of natural and
artificial radioactivity.

Candidates should be able to:

(i) distinguish between atoms, molecules and ions;(ii) identify the contributions of these scientists to the development of the atomic structure;(iii) deduce the number of protons, neutrons and electrons from atomic and mass numbers of an atom;

(iv) apply the rules guiding the arrangement of electrons in an atom;

(v) identify common elements exhibiting isotopy;

(vi) relate isotopy to mass number;

(vii) perform simple calculations relating to isotopy;

(viii) differentiate between the shapes of the orbitals;

(ix) determine the number of electrons in s and p atomic orbitals;

(x) relate atomic number to the position of an element on the periodic table;

(xi) relate properties of groups of elements on the periodic table;

(xii) identify reasons for variation in properties across the period and down the groups;

(xiii) differentiate between the different types of bonding;

(xiv) deduce bond types based on electron
configurations;

(xv) relate the nature of bonding to properties of compounds;

(xvi) differentiate between the various shapes of molecules;

xvii) distinguish between ordinary chemical
reaction and nuclear reaction;

(xviii) differentiate between natural and
artificial radioactivity;

(xix) compare the properties of the different types of nuclear radiations;

(xx) compute simple calculations on the
half-life of a radioactive material;

(xxi) balance simple nuclear equation; and

(xxii) identify the various applications of
radioactivity.

JAMB Syllabus For All Subjects- PHYSICS

Below is the newly approved JAMB Syllabus foe PHYSICS for the 2025/2026 session.

SECTION A: JAMB Syllabus For Physics- MEASUREMENTS AND UNITS

(a) Length, area and volume: Metre rule,
Venier calipers, Micrometer Screw-guage, measuring cylinder.
(b) Mass
(i) unit of mass;
(ii) use of simple beam balance;
(iii) concept of beam balance.
(c) Time
(i) unit of time;
(ii) time-measuring devices.
(d) Fundamental physical quantities
(e) Derived physical quantities and their
units
(i) Combinations of fundamental quantities
and determination of their units;
ix. deduce the units of derived
physical quantities;
(f) Dimensions
(i) definition of dimensions
(ii) simple examples
(g) Limitations of experimental
measurements
(i) accuracy of measuring
instruments;
(ii) simple estimation of errors;
(iii) significant figures;
(iv) standard form.
(h) Measurement, position, distance and
displacement
(i) concept of displacement;
(ii) distinction between distance and
displacement;
(iii) concept of position and coordinates;
(iv) frame of reference.

SECTION B: JAMB Syllabus For Physics- Scalars and Vectors

(i) definition of scalar and vector quantities;
(ii) examples of scalar and vector
quantities;
(iii) relative velocity;
(iv) resolution of vectors into two
perpendicular directions including graphical methods of solution

SECTION C: JAMB Syllabus For Physics- Motion

(a) Types of motion: translational, oscillatory, rotational, spin
and random
(b) Relative motion
(c) Causes of motion
(d) Types of force
(i) contact
(ii) force field

(e) linear motion
(i) speed, velocity and acceleration;
(ii) equations of uniformly accelerated motion;
(iii) motion under gravity;
(iv) distance-time graph and velocity time graph;
(v) instantaneous velocity and acceleration.

(f) Projectiles:
(i) calculation of range, maximum height
and time of flight from the ground and
a height;
(ii) applications of projectile motion.

(g) Newton’s laws of motion:
(i) inertia, mass and force;
(ii) relationship between mass and acceleration;
(iii) impulse and momentum;
(iv) force – time graph;
(v) conservation of linear momentum (Coefficient of restitution not necessary).

(h) Motion in a circle:
(i) angular velocity and
angular acceleration;
(ii) centripetal and centrifugal forces;
(iii) applications.
(i) Simple Harmonic Motion (S.H.M):
(i) definition and explanation of simple harmonic motion;
(ii) examples of systems that execute S.H.M;
(iii) period, frequency and amplitude of S.H.M;
(iv) velocity and acceleration of S.H.M;
(iii) simple treatment of energy change
in S.H.M;
(iv) force vibration and resonance
(simple treatment).

SECTION D: JAMB Syllabus For physics Gravitational field

(i) Newton’s law of universal gravitation;
(ii) gravitational potential;
(iii) conservative and non conservative fields;
(iv) acceleration due to gravity;
(v) variation of g on the earth’s surface;
(vi) distinction between mass and weight escape velocity;
(vii) parking orbit and weightlessness

JAMB Syllabus For All Subjects- Use Of English

Below is the newly approved JAMB Syllabus foe USE OF ENGLISH for the 2025/2026 session.

JAMB Syllabus For All Subjects- Mathematics 2025/2026 pdf

Below is the approved JAMB Syllabus For Mathematics for the 2025/2026 UTME examination:

JAMB Syllabus For All Subjects- Agricultural Science 2025/2026

Below is the jamb syllabus for Agric Science for the 2025/2026 UTME examination.

SESSION A: JAMB Syllabus for Agricultural Science- General Agriculture

• what are the Scope of Agriculture
• Significance of Agriculture
• Meaning Agricultural Ecology
• Meaning  Agricultural Genetics
• Meaning of Farm Inputs
• History of Agricultural Development in West Africa
• Roles of Government and NGOs in Agricultural Development.