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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is a Nigerian entrance examination board for tertiary-level institutions.

The board conducts entrance Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for prospective undergraduates into Nigerian universities.

The board is also charged with the responsibility to administer similar examinations for applicants to Nigerian public and private monotechnics, polytechnics, and colleges of educations.

All of these candidates must have obtained the West Africa Senior School Certificate (WASSCE) conducted yearly by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, or its equivalent, National Examination Council (Nigeria), Senior School Certificate Examination, NECO SSCE.

The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination is a computer-based standardized examination for prospective undergraduates in Nigeria.

It is designed to assess problem solving, critical thinking, knowledge of scientific concepts and principles significance of each subject taken.

Prior to 2014 the exam was a paper-and-pencil test; since May 17, 2014, however, all administrations of the exam have been computer-based.

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is an examination board established by law to determine the examinations required in the public interest in the English-speaking West African countries, to conduct the examinations and to award certificates comparable to those of equivalent examining authorities internationally.

Established in 1952, the council has contributed to education in Anglophone countries of West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Gambia), with the number of examinations they have coordinated, and certificates they have issued.

They also formed an endowment fund, to contribute to education in West Africa, through lectures and aid to those who cannot afford education.

Since established it continues to be one of the biggest and most globally recognized exams in West Africa.

The National Examinations Council (also known as NECO) is an examination body in Nigeria that conducts the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and the General Certificate in Education in June/July and November/December respectively.

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits.

There are many debates about its precise definition, for example, about which aims it tries to achieve.

A further issue is whether part of the meaning of education is that the change in the student is an improvement.

Some researchers stress the role of critical thinking to distinguish education from indoctrination.

These disagreements affect how to identify, measure, and improve forms of education.

The term can also refer to the mental states and qualities of educated people.

Additionally, it can mean the academic field studying education.