What are the JAMB subject combination for Botany for 2025/2026? If you are writing JAMB this year and you want to know the JAMB as well the O level (WAEC) subject combination required to study Botany under the faculty of Sciences for 2025/2026 then it may please you to know that we have covered JAMB and WAEC subject combination for Botany here in this post you are currently reading.
So, in this post, we will be updating all JAMB and WAEC candidates who will be sitting for the upcoming JAMB examination with the JAMB subject combination for Botany for the 2025/2026 academic session.
Keep in mind that the JAMB subject combinations as well as the o level (WAEC) requirements mentioned on this post are only meant for Botany under the faculty of Sciences.
JAMB Subject Combination For Botany
The required JAMB subject subject combination for Botany are:
Biology, Chemistry and any other Science subject.
Special Requirements (Waiver) Remarks
(i) FED-OYEEKITI, UNIBADAN, FED-LAFIA, EBSU, MAUTECH, DELSU, UNN, RSUST, UNILAG and UNILORIN require Biology, Chemistry and Physics/Mathematics.
(ii) OAU requires Chemistry, Biology or Agricultural Science and Mathematics or Physics.
(iii) IGBINEDION accepts Biology, Chemistry and one of Physics or Mathematics.
(iv) FUTO requires Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.
(v) SALEM, UNIBEN and UNILAG require Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
(vi) UNICAL requires Mathematics or Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
(vii) OSUSTECH requires Biology, Chemistry and any one of Mathematics, Physics and Agricultural Science.
(viii) KWASU requires English chosen course and any Two From Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Further Mathematics.
(ix) FUAM require Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
WAEC (O Level) Subject Requirements For Botany
The list of compulsory WAEC subjects required for Botany under the faculty of are as follows:
Five SSCE Credit passes in English Language, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
Special Requirements (Waiver) Remarks
(i) UNN requires credit in English language, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics in the West African School Certificate Examination or G.C.E. ‘O’ level or its equivalent.
(ii) IGBINEDION accepts credit pass in Science Subject in lieu of Physics.
(iii) OAU accepts Agric Science.
(iv) UDUSOK and UNIMAID accept pass in Mathematics and English Language.
(v) DELSU does not require a credit in Physics but accepts a
pass in English Language provided candidates has distinction in O/L Biology.
(vi) UNIUYO requires a Credit pass in Mathematics and Physics.
(vii) GOMSU accepts P7 in Physics.
(viii) UNIBEN and ABSU accept a pass in Physics.
(ix) UNIBADAN requires 5 or 6 ‘O’ level credits passes at one or two sittings include English Language, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and any one or two of Physics, Geography and Agric Science.
(x) KSUST accepts Geography, Economics and Agriculture in lieu of Biology as O Level subjects.
(xi) JABU accepts Agricultural Science in lieu of Biology.
(xii) OOU requires five ‘O’ level credit passes in English language, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
(xiii) JABU accepts five O level credit passes in relevant subjects plus ND and NCE.
(xiv) FUAM Candidates seeking admission into any of these Programmes must possess five (5) credit passes which MUST be from one examination body (i.e. either WAEC or NECO) and obtained at NOT more than two (2) sittings. The Department does not accept the combination of both WAEC and NECO. Students of the University of Agriculture, Makurdi Pre-degree Remedial Science Programme who pass their end of session examinations are considered or admission on the condition that they also pass UTME. NOTE: Agricultural Science and Health Science shall NOT be accepted in place of Biology. Further Mathematics shall NOT be accepted in place of Physics or Mathematics.
(xv) GODFREY accepts credit pass in any other Science subject in lieu of Physics.
(xvi) PAUL requires five SSCE credit passes at not more than two sittings in English Language, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
(xvii) ABSU requires five SSCE credit passes in English Language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Physics.
(xviii) OSUSTECH requires five O’ level credit passes in English language, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and any one of Agricultural Science, Physics and Geography.
(xix) KWASU requires credit passes from English Language, Mathematics and any three of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Further Mathematics and Agricultural Science.
(xx) MCPHERSON accepts Five ‘O’ level credit passes in relevant subjects plus ND(upper credit), HND (upper credit) and NCE (merit).
(xxi) FED-OYEEKITI accepts five ‘O’ level Credit passes to include English language and Mathematics and any three of Biology, Chemistry, Technical Drawing, Agricultural Science and Geography.
(xxii) BSU for Plant Science and Biotechnology accepts passes in five (5) prescribed subjects in Preliminary Science of BSU in addition to minimum UTME score