October 19, 2026
Camino Prep Coach: The JAMB UTME App That Remembers What You Keep Getting Wrong
2025 saw a record 2,030,627 UTME registrations. Real spaced-repetition research shows why practising more isn't the answer -- retaining more of what you already practised is. Here's how Coach's daily quiz, review queue, and installable app are built around that gap.
Exam format
- English Language — 60 questions
- Mathematics — 40 questions
- Physics — 40 questions
- Chemistry — 40 questions
- Biology — 40 questions
- Agricultural Science — 40 questions
- Economics — 40 questions
- Government — 40 questions
- Commerce — 40 questions
- Geography — 40 questions
- Christian Religious Studies (CRS) — 40 questions
- Islamic Religious Studies (IRS) — 40 questions
- Literature in English — 40 questions
- History — 40 questions
- Fine Art — 40 questions
- French — 40 questions
- Arabic — 40 questions
- Music — 40 questions
- Igbo — 40 questions
- Yoruba — 40 questions
- Hausa — 40 questions
- Home Economics — 40 questions
- Computer Studies — 40 questions
- Physical and Health Education — 40 questions
Key dates
JAMB confirmed 2,030,627 candidates registered for the 2025 UTME -- the highest number in the exam's history, up from roughly 1.9 million the year before. If your plan for standing out in a field that size is simply "do more past questions," you're competing on the one axis where everyone else is already maxing out too.
1. Most self-study loses more than half of what it covers before exam day. A 2006 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin (Cepeda, Pashler, Vul, Wixted & Rohrer) reviewed 271 head-to-head comparisons of spaced review against massed, crammed practice, holding total study time equal. Spaced review won 259 of those 271 comparisons -- final recall averaged 47.3% with spaced study versus 36.7% with cramming. That's not a small edge: it's a roughly 29% relative improvement in how much of your own practice actually survives to exam day, with no extra hours added.
2. Coach's daily quiz isn't random -- it's built from your own weak spots. Every subscriber's daily quiz is weighted toward the topics where their own practice-attempt history shows the lowest accuracy, pulled straight from your real answer record on the platform, not a generic mixed set.
3. The review queue is where the 47.3%-vs-36.7% gap actually gets closed. Miss a question once and it doesn't just vanish back into a PDF you'll never reopen -- it resurfaces on a schedule. Answer it correctly and the interval before it comes back grows; miss it again and it resets to come back sooner. That's the literal mechanism behind the spaced-practice numbers above, running automatically in the background of your JAMB prep.
4. You can see where you stand, not just how many questions you've done. Coach shows an estimated ranking among other subscribers preparing for the same exam, plus streak and topic-mastery badges -- concrete signals in a field of two million candidates where "I've been studying" isn't information, but "I'm in the top third of this topic among other UTME Coach subscribers" is.
5. It installs like a real app, and reminds you before you forget to show up. Add Coach to your home screen straight from the browser -- no app store needed -- and anything you've already opened stays viewable offline. A daily notification nudges you to the day's quiz, so consistency doesn't depend on remembering to open a tab.
Subscribe to Camino Prep Coach for JAMB UTME to start your daily quiz, build your review queue, and see your ranking -- the habit matters more than any single session, and record-size fields reward exactly that.