Booking JAMB Appointments: Online and via SMART Numbers

Securing JAMB Appointments has been streamlined with two convenient options: online booking and the use of SMART Numbers.

Due to the prevailing corona virus (covid-19) pandemic the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to ensure seamless and efficient delivery of their service also proactively protecting both staff and clients, particularly tertiary education candidates and the general public while still maintaining the covid-19 rules and regulations has decided to launch a booking platform for all candidates and the general public who is need of any of the board service that requires physical contact.

According to our previous report, the board launched four (4) new innovations or platforms for bookings but will be using one as of now which is called the SMA(R)T Phone Numbers which we are going to cover in this post, they include:

1. The Online Appointment Booking-Platform
2. The One Time Password,
3. The Disinfectant Tunnel Sprayers and
4. the SMA(R)T phone numbers.

A. JAMB ONLINE APPOINTMENT BOOKING GUIDELINES & REQUIREMENTS USING YOUR SMART MOBILE PHONE

The JAMB Appointment Booking Platform is yet another COVlD-19-induced innovation aimed at ensuring that physical distancing, as a measure to curb the spread of the virus, is respected.

The platform would protect candidates, members of staff of the Board and other clients by ensuring that the number of clients to be attended to at the Board’s offices nationwide is not above the stipulated number as directed by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVlD-19 and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

In this regard, the Board has structured the system in such a way that a candidate MUST secure an online appointment using the same SIM (Phone Number) used for UTME/DE registration by following the steps listed below:

• A candidate can secure an online appointment, by dialing *55019# using the same SIM (Phone Number) that was used in registering for UTME/DE. This is different from the result checker and other services which are activated by sending SMS to 55019.
• From the Drop-down MENU, a candidate selects STATE where he/she intends to access the required service.
• Under STATE, the candidate has to pick a centre.
• After picking a centre, date and time would be allotted to the candidate by SMS.
• A candidate is expected to be at the centre not earlier than five minutes of the allotted time and not later than the actual time allotted to him/her.
• Any candidate who is a minute late would be disqualified and he/she would have to secure afresh appointment.
• The timing will be strictly adhered to as it is the only means to ensure that candidates do not congregate around the premises of the Board.
• To complete the process at the centre on the scheduled time and date, a candidate MUST come with his/her  SIM (Phone Number) placed in a functional phone and an ATM card in case he/she needs to pay for any service(s).
• If a candidate is required to make any payments at the centre, he/she must use an ATM card or go to the bank to make such payments.
• The Board is discouraging the use of POS for obvious COVlD-19- related reasons. As such, only electronic payments can be made on the Board’s platform as cash payment is not allowed.

B. JAMB ONLINE APPOINTMENT BOOKING VIA SMA(R)T PHONE NUMBERS

SMA(R)T phone numbers popularly called ”vanity numbers”in other climes are very easy to remember. SMA(R)T (Vanity) numbers are artificial numbers based on the letters of the beneficial owner of the number.

The letters in the name of the owner are keyed once wherever they occur on the phone pad. For example, JAMB which is the name of the beneficiary in this instance would apart from 0700 which is the SMA(R)T-code in Nigeria ( for non-toll—free) have ”J” of JAMB on key ”5”, ”A” on key (12”, ”M” on ”6″ and (IBM on ”2”.

Consequently, all SMA(R)T JAMB numbers would include 5262. Therefore all JAMB numbers in different offices are unified with 0700-5(J)2(A)6(M)2(B) before the 3 or 4 other numbers for the state or centre. This would make it easy for a candidate to remember the constant –0700—5262.

These dedicated numbers are meant to facilitate round-the-clock access to JAMB services.

All JAMB SMA(R)T phone lines would commence with ’0700’, followed by ”JAMB” and then the first three letters of each State with the exception of one or two States that did not follow the sequence of the first three letters. For instance, Abia State would have ’0700- JAMB—ABI’ as its phone number.

The Board is mindful of the fact that the normal eleven digit numbers are difficult to memorize but when it comes to SMA(R)T numbers, all a candidate needs to do is simply to add the last three letters of the State Capital of his choice to ‘0700—JAMB’.

NB: Members of the public are to note that these phone lines, while not  toll-free, would be accessible on all networks. 

JAMB SMA(R)T Phone Numbers and Interpretation for all the States Nationwide

HOW TO DIAL THE SMA(R)T NUMBERS: 

To call any of the numbers, all a candidate needs to do to attain the alphabets would be to simply dial, just once, the corresponding letters on the numeric keys. For instance, ’5’ would yield ’J’, ’K’ and ’L’ etc. Each number on the numeric phone key (from 2 to 9) would bear the letters under it.

Note that the letters dialed will be displayed as digits e.g: 0700-JAMB- ABI shall display as 07005262224 when dialed from the numeric phone keys.

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