ABUAD Admission Process: WAEC Results to Admission Letter

Last Updated for the 2026/2027 Academic Session | Fees and portal steps verified against the ABUAD admission portal and JAMB eFacility at the time of writing.

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Every single year, the same thing happens. Applicants check their JAMB score, celebrate, and then get stuck somewhere between "I passed" and "I am holding my admission letter." Someone forgets to upload their O'Level result. Someone pays the wrong fee on the wrong portal. Someone sees "Admission in Progress" on JAMB CAPS for three weeks and panics.

Here is the truth: the ABUAD admission process is not complicated. It is just undocumented. There is no single official page that walks you from checking your WAEC result all the way to receiving your admission letter. Different steps live on different portals (WAEC, JAMB eFacility, JAMB CAPS, and the ABUAD admission portal), and missing one step silently blocks the next.

This guide fixes that. It covers all 8 steps of the ABUAD admission journey in order, with the exact portals, the exact fees, the common errors at each stage, and what to do when something goes wrong. (Still filling your JAMB form and comparing schools? Read our ABUAD vs Covenant vs Babcock comparison first.)

Table of Contents

• Step 1: How to Check Your WAEC and JAMB/UTME Results
• Step 2: How to Update Your O'Level Results on Your JAMB Profile
• Step 3: How to Create Your ABUAD Applicant Account
• Step 4: Writing the ABUAD Post-UTME
• Step 5: The Registration Process on the ABUAD Portal
• Step 6: How to Check Your Admission Status on JAMB CAPS and the ABUAD Portal
• Step 7: Paying the Acceptance Fee
• Step 8: Receiving Your Admission Letter and Email
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Step 1: How to Check Your WAEC and JAMB/UTME Results

Everything starts here. ABUAD will not look at your application without a valid UTME result and your O'Level result, so confirm both before you spend a naira on any form.

Checking your WAEC result

The official WAEC result checker is waecdirect.org. Do not use any other website that claims to check WAEC results. You will need:

• Your 10-digit Examination Number (your 7-digit centre number plus your 3-digit candidate number).
• Your Examination Year and Type (for May/June, select "School Candidate Result").
• Your Serial Number and PIN, found on the reverse of the smart identity card issued during your exam, or on a purchased result checker card/e-PIN.

Enter all four details on waecdirect.org and click Submit. Your result displays on screen. Screenshot it and save it somewhere you will not lose it.

The official WAEC result checker at waecdirect.org — you need your exam number, PIN and serial number from your scratch card.

What your WAEC result looks like once checked (sample for illustration).

One PIN checks your result a maximum of 5 times before it expires. Do not lend your card to friends "just to try it." If you exhaust your tries or lose the card, a fresh PIN from WAEC's Request Management System (request.waec.ng) costs over ₦3,500 at current reported prices. Confirm the exact price with WAEC before paying, and never buy PINs from random social media vendors. {alertWarning}

You can also check by SMS: send WAEC*ExamNo*PIN*ExamYear (no spaces) to 32327 on MTN, Glo, or Airtel. The reported service charge is about ₦30.

Checking your JAMB/UTME result

There are two official ways, and both are free of the fake-portal problem if you follow the exact addresses:

1. Online: Log into your JAMB profile at efacility.jamb.gov.ng with the email and password you used at registration, then click "Check UTME Results." Your score displays on screen.
2. By SMS: Send UTMERESULT to 55019 from the exact SIM you used for JAMB registration. The service charge is ₦50, so make sure you have at least that much airtime. The SMS shows your score but cannot be printed.

Printing your original UTME result slip (₦1,000) from JAMB eFacility — the version institutions accept.

If you need the printable version with your passport photograph (the one institutions accept), go to eFacility, click "Print Result Slip," pay ₦1,000 with your card, and download the PDF. Keep both a printed copy and the PDF file. You will need this slip during ABUAD registration in Step 5.

Common errors at this stage

Error message	What it means and what to do
Invalid e-PIN / scratch card	Re-check your exam number, serial number, and PIN for typos. If it persists, contact WAEC through the official channels on waec.org.ng.
Result not available	The result may still be processing or the portal is under heavy traffic. Wait a few hours and retry, preferably at night.
Result withheld	The result is tied to an exam-malpractice investigation. Resolve through your school or the nearest WAEC office. This blocks your admission until it clears.
"Phone number not used for registration"	You sent the JAMB SMS from a different SIM. Use the exact number you registered with, or use the online method instead.
Candidate Absent	Either you missed the exam or there is a registration-number error. Visit your state JAMB office with your registration documents.

Step 2: How to Update Your O'Level Results on Your JAMB Profile

This is the step that silently kills more admissions than any other. If your WAEC (or NECO/GCE/NABTEB) result is not uploaded to your JAMB profile, JAMB CAPS shows "A/R" (Awaiting Result) against your name, and no university (ABUAD included) can complete your admission until it clears.

Read this part twice: you cannot upload your O'Level result yourself. Not from your phone, not from your laptop, not from an ordinary cyber cafe. The upload must be done at a JAMB-accredited CBT centre or a JAMB state office. Any website or vendor claiming to upload it for you remotely is lying to you. {alertError}

First, check whether it is already uploaded

1. Log into your JAMB profile at efacility.jamb.gov.ng.
2. Click "Check Admission Status," then "Access my CAPS."
3. Look at the O'Level section. If your grades display, you are done with this step. If it shows "A/R" or "Awaiting Result," your result is not uploaded.

Log in at efacility.jamb.gov.ng — the only official address. Bookmark it.

Your JAMB dashboard. Confirm the correct examination year before doing anything else.

In CAPS, open “My O’Level” to see whether your results are uploaded.

If your subjects and grades appear here, your O’Level upload is complete. If it shows “A/R,” head to a JAMB-accredited CBT centre.

If it is not uploaded

1. Print your O'Level result and also carry a scanned soft copy (on a flash drive or your email).
2. Go to the nearest JAMB-accredited CBT centre. The reported official service fee is around ₦700, though some centres charge up to ₦1,000. Confirm the price before they start.
3. The centre operator uploads the result. Before you leave, look at the screen and confirm every grade and the exam year are entered correctly. Operators make mistakes, and a wrong grade entered here follows you through the whole admission.
4. Allow about 24 hours, then log back into CAPS and confirm the grades now display.

The most common failure here is an operator selecting "Awaiting Result" for a candidate who is holding a complete result. It happens quietly, you walk away thinking you are done, and weeks later your admission stalls with no explanation. Always verify on the centre's screen before paying, and re-verify on CAPS the next day. {alertWarning}

One more thing on timing. JAMB itself sets no fixed deadline for the upload, but ABUAD's admission timeline is the real constraint. If ABUAD forwards your name to JAMB while CAPS still shows "Awaiting Result," your admission is put on hold until the result appears. Do this step early, not after screening.

Step 3: How to Create Your ABUAD Applicant Account

Now to ABUAD's side. Everything about your application (the form, the payment, the Post-UTME, your admission status, and your admission letter) runs through one portal, and you need an account on it.

The only correct address is admissions.abuad.edu.ng. Note the "s" at the end of "admissions." Several older guides on other blogs still link to admission.abuad.edu.ng (singular), which is a dead address that no longer exists. If a page will not load, check that you typed the plural form. {alertInfo}

Creating the account

1. Go to admissions.abuad.edu.ng.
2. Select your admission category, for example "Fresh Undergraduate."
3. Click "Get Started" / "Create Account."
4. Register with your full name (exactly as it appears on your WAEC and JAMB records), a valid personal email address, your phone number, and a password.
5. Log in with the email and password you just created.

On admissions.abuad.edu.ng, pick your category — most applicants click “Fresh Undergraduate.” (The portal layout has stayed the same for years.)

“Get Started” begins a new application; “Login to Continue your Application” resumes one you have already paid for.

The applicant login — use the email and password you set at registration. This is why your personal email matters.

Use a personal email address you check every day. Not a cyber cafe email, not a shared family email. Your screening invite, your admission status updates, and your admission letter notice all arrive at this address. Gmail is the safe choice; some applicants report delays with Yahoo addresses. {alertWarning}

Spelling matters more than you think at this step. Your name on the ABUAD portal should match your WAEC and JAMB records letter for letter. If there is already a mismatch between your WAEC and JAMB names, contact JAMB (for data correction on their side) and the ABUAD admissions office before proceeding, rather than hoping nobody notices.

Beware of fraudsters

ABUAD's own official notices carry a fraud warning signed by the Registrar: money paid into any account not published by the university is at the applicant's risk. Pay only through the portal or into the bank accounts listed on the official ABUAD website, and call only the enquiry lines published there. Nobody legitimate will DM you a "special account number" for admission processing.

Step 4: Writing the ABUAD Post-UTME

Here is why the account in Step 3 comes first: you cannot access the Post-UTME screening platform until you have paid for the admission form and completed the online application on your ABUAD account. The account is the key to the exam room.

Registering for the screening

1. Log into your account on admissions.abuad.edu.ng and click "Start your Application."
2. Indicate whether ABUAD was your first choice in UTME. If it was not, you will also need to process a JAMB change of institution and pay ABUAD's change-of-institution fee of ₦3,500 on top of the normal fees.
3. Pay the fees through the portal (Quickteller/Interswitch with your ATM card): ₦2,000 for the application form plus ₦5,000 for the screening, ₦7,000 total for UTME candidates. Direct Entry and transfer candidates pay ₦10,500. Online payments attract a small transaction charge.
4. Fill the application form: JAMB score, O'Level grades, personal details, and course of choice. Double-check everything before submitting.
5. Upload the required documents: JAMB result slip, O'Level result, passport photograph, birth certificate or age declaration, and local government identification.

Inside your ABUAD portal, click “Screening” on the sidebar to access the Post-UTME platform. Your screening date appears at the top when your batch is scheduled.

A sample screening slip (illustration) — print yours and bring it with a valid ID.

Pay online through the portal if you can. Candidates who pay online take the screening online. Candidates who pay at a bank do not get access to the online form and must complete registration at a designated point and write at a designated centre. The online route is faster and removes a whole category of things that can go wrong. {alertSuccess}

Two notes from ABUAD’s own screening guide. First, Direct Entry and inter-university transfer candidates do not write the online screening at all — they are assessed on the documents uploaded to their application portal, so the exam steps below apply only to UTME candidates. Second, if you paid and filled your form manually, you must scan the completed form and email it with your proof of payment, a valid email address and phone number to postutmescreeningtest@abuad.edu.ng — without this, the screening platform will not open for you.

What the screening looks like

The ABUAD Post-UTME is a computer-based, multiple-choice screening based on your JAMB subject combination. If you prepared properly for UTME, you are already prepared for this. ABUAD runs the screening in batches across the session, and your batch date arrives by email, which is another reason the personal-email rule in Step 3 matters.

The minimum UTME score to apply is commonly cited as 180, but competitive courses sit far higher: Medicine, Law, and Pharmacy candidates need scores in the 220 to 270+ range in practice. For the full breakdown by department, read our ABUAD cut-off marks guide, and for a deeper walkthrough of the screening itself, see the complete ABUAD Post-UTME guide.

For Medicine (MBBS), Nursing, and Law, your five O'Level credits must come from one sitting. Two sittings are accepted for most other programmes but not these. Applicants discover this after paying, every single year. Check your result against your course requirement before you pay. {alertWarning}

Sitting the exam: what you will actually see

Before your batch date, one more check that ABUAD itself insists on: review everything on your application portal — your name, date of birth, UTME registration number, and subject combination — and correct any mismatch with your JAMB records before you start the exam. ABUAD’s guide is blunt about this: wrong details can amount to disqualification. Use a computer, not a phone, and make sure your internet connection is stable before you begin.

English is compulsory; choose the other three subjects to match your JAMB combination exactly. A wrong combination here is a self-inflicted wound.

After selecting your subjects, the portal shows a summary dashboard with your name, course, JAMB registration number, score, subjects, and the exam duration — 60 minutes.

Confirm every detail on this page before clicking “Proceed to Screening.”

The moment you click “Proceed to Screening,” your 60-minute timer starts — and ABUAD’s guide warns that it keeps running even if you log out or lose connection. Do not click it to “have a look.” Click it when you are seated, settled, and ready to write. {alertError}

The CBT screen: 100 questions, 60 minutes. Red tiles are unanswered, green are answered. Use “Save & Next” after every question, and click “End Exam” only when you are done.

The exam is 100 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes — about 36 seconds per question, so answer what you know first and use the number grid to jump back to anything you skipped. The countdown sits at the top-right of the screen the whole time.

Step 5: The Registration Process on the ABUAD Portal

After the screening, your work moves back to the ABUAD portal. This stage is about making sure your file is complete so that when admission decisions happen, nothing on your side is missing.

1

Log into the portal at admissions.abuad.edu.ng with the account from Step 3.

2

Complete and confirm your biodata. Check the spelling of your name against your WAEC and JAMB records one more time.

3

Upload every required document: passport photograph, JAMB result slip, O'Level result, birth certificate or affidavit, and LGA identification. The JAMB admission letter is added later, once you have it (Step 8).

4

Wait for your admission decision (Step 6), then pay the acceptance fee (Step 7), which unlocks the remaining registration steps.

5

Course registration and clearance follow after acceptance. Course registration carries its own fee line (₦10,000 in recent fee schedules), and clearance involves presenting your original documents physically.

The payment system on the portal can be shaky on poor network. Do not start any payment on weak data. A failed payment midway can cause double deductions or delayed confirmation. If it happens, do not pay again immediately: note your transaction ID, wait for the confirmation email, and contact the ABUAD accounts office with the transaction ID if the payment does not reflect. {alertWarning}

The exact clearance checklist changes slightly by session, so treat the portal's own instructions and the admissions office as the final word on which documents to bring physically. When ABUAD's instructions and a blog post disagree, ABUAD wins. That includes this blog post.

Step 6: How to Check Your Admission Status on JAMB CAPS and the ABUAD Portal

This is the step with the most confusion, the most refreshing of pages, and the most panic. So let us be precise. Your admission exists in two separate places, and you need to understand both:

• The ABUAD portal shows the university's own offer.
• JAMB CAPS (the Central Admissions Processing System) is where that offer becomes an official, nationally recognized admission after JAMB verifies it and you accept it.

An offer on the ABUAD portal without a CAPS acceptance is not a completed admission. These are two separate confirmations, and you need both.

How to check your admission status on JAMB CAPS

There is no separate CAPS website you log into. CAPS is reached through your JAMB eFacility profile:

1. Log in at efacility.jamb.gov.ng.
2. Click "Check Admission Status," select your exam year, and enter your registration number.
3. Click "Access my CAPS," then "Admission Status."

Checking on your phone? Switch your browser to Desktop mode (Chrome: menu → Desktop site). On mobile view, CAPS often shows only a welcome screen with no status, and applicants conclude they have a problem they do not have. {alertInfo}

A CAPS offer after acceptance. Until you click Accept (or SMS ACCEPT to 55019), your admission is not complete.

What each CAPS status means

CAPS status	What it actually means
Admission in Progress	ABUAD has recommended you and JAMB is verifying your eligibility. It is not a guarantee. It usually resolves within days, and it can resolve either way. Do not pay anyone to "speed it up."
Not Admitted	No offer yet. This can change in later batches. Common hidden causes: your O'Level shows "Awaiting Result" (go back to Step 2), a wrong subject combination, or a score below your course's cut-off.
Admitted	You have been offered provisional admission. Accept it (see below) as soon as possible.
Transfer of Admission	The school is considering you for a different course than the one you applied for, usually because you missed your first course's cut-off. You choose whether to take it.

How to accept your admission on CAPS

When your status shows Admitted, you must formally accept. This is compulsory. An unaccepted offer is not a completed admission, and you cannot print the JAMB admission letter without it.

1. Online: on the CAPS Admission Status page, click "Accept."
2. By SMS: send ACCEPT to 55019 or 66019 from your JAMB-registered phone number.

Checking your status on the ABUAD portal

Log into admissions.abuad.edu.ng and check your application dashboard. ABUAD's own result-publication notices also point candidates to a direct status-check page at admissions.abuad.edu.ng/under/CheckAdmission. ABUAD releases admissions in batches, so a blank status today does not mean a rejection. ABUAD's offer often appears on its own portal before anything changes on CAPS, because CAPS updates only after JAMB completes its verification.

What an offer looks like on the ABUAD portal (sample for illustration).

Wrote in a later batch and your status is simply not showing? ABUAD has an official complaint form for exactly this: admissions.abuad.edu.ng/under/admissionissue.php. Use it instead of panicking or paying anyone. {alertInfo}

If the ABUAD portal shows an offer but CAPS still shows "Not Admitted" after a couple of weeks, the usual culprit is the O'Level upload from Step 2. Confirm CAPS is not showing "A/R," and if everything looks correct on your side, contact the ABUAD admissions office with your details (admissionsoffice@abuad.edu.ng). Do not just wait silently. {alertWarning}

Step 7: Paying the Acceptance Fee

Once ABUAD offers you admission, the acceptance fee is how you say yes. Paying it confirms your intention to take the spot and unlocks the rest of your registration: clearance, course registration, and eventually hostel processing.

How much is it?

Honest answer: ABUAD does not publish the acceptance fee on a public page, and blogs that quote a figure are guessing. The most credible reports put it at around ₦100,000 for fresh students. Treat that as an estimate, not a promise, and confirm the exact current amount on your portal offer page or with the admissions office before paying. Any page that gives you a confident exact figure without a source is making it up.

How to pay

1. Log into your account on admissions.abuad.edu.ng.
2. Open your admission offer and follow the acceptance-fee payment instructions shown there. ABUAD's official post-admission guidance names Quickteller and Paydirect (paid at any bank) as the two channels — Quickteller for online card payments, Paydirect if you prefer to print your invoice and pay over the counter.
3. Save the payment confirmation and receipt. Screenshot it, download it, and email it to yourself.

The acceptance-fee payment flow (sample) — confirm the exact amount on YOUR offer page before paying.

Save this screen. Download the receipt PDF and email it to yourself (sample for illustration).

There is a deadline. ABUAD treats an unpaid acceptance fee as a declined offer after the stipulated time. The exact date is set per session and appears with your offer, so read your offer page carefully and do not sit on it. {alertError}

Pay only through the portal or ABUAD's officially published bank accounts. The Registrar's own fraud notice says money paid into any unpublished account is at your risk. Nobody from ABUAD will call you with a "special" account number. {alertWarning}

Step 8: Receiving Your Admission Letter and Email

Final step, and the one with a detail almost nobody explains: there are two different admission letters, they come from two different bodies, and they do not arrive together.

The ABUAD admission letter

This is the university's own offer document. It arrives on your ABUAD portal dashboard, usually alongside an email to the address from Step 3. It is a three-page letter: it states your course, your department, and what to do next — and page 3 contains your student portal login details, which you will need for school fees and course registration. Download it, read all three pages, print at least two copies, and keep the PDF safe.

Page 1 of the ABUAD admission letter (sample). The real letter has 3 pages — your portal login details are on page 3.

The admission email (sample). Check your spam folder if it does not arrive.

The JAMB admission letter

This is the national confirmation, and you can only print it after accepting your admission on CAPS (Step 6). You will need it for clearance and, years later, for NYSC mobilization, so this is not optional paperwork.

1. Log into efacility.jamb.gov.ng.
2. Click "Print Admission Letter."
3. Pay the ₦1,000 fee with your card.
4. Select your exam year, enter your registration number, and download the PDF.

The “Print Admission Letter” tile on eFacility — it only works after you accept your admission on CAPS.

One quirk worth knowing: the printed JAMB letter is reported to expire after about two years, after which reprinting requires paying again. Keep the PDF file itself somewhere permanent (your email, a cloud drive), not just the printout.

The timing gap, explained

Here is the part that causes unnecessary panic every admission season. The ABUAD letter and the JAMB letter do not always arrive together, and the gap can be long. It is completely normal to be holding your ABUAD admission letter while CAPS is still processing and the JAMB letter is weeks away.

You are not stuck. ABUAD allows you to continue your registration process while the JAMB letter is still pending, so keep moving: pay your acceptance fee, complete your portal registration, and prepare for resumption. Add the JAMB letter to your file when it arrives.

If the ABUAD letter itself does not show up after your portal status says Admitted: check your spam folder, check the portal dashboard directly rather than waiting for the email, and confirm your JAMB profile email is correct. If it is still missing after a few days, contact the admissions office through the official lines on abuad.edu.ng. {alertInfo}

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How do I check my admission status on JAMB CAPS?

Log into your JAMB profile at efacility.jamb.gov.ng, click "Check Admission Status," select your exam year, enter your registration number, then click "Access my CAPS" and "Admission Status." On a phone, switch your browser to Desktop mode or the page may show only a welcome screen.

What does "Admission in Progress" mean on JAMB CAPS?

It means the university has recommended you for admission and JAMB is verifying your eligibility. It is not a guarantee. It usually resolves within a few days to either "Admitted" or "Not Admitted." You do not need to do anything, and you should not pay anyone to "fast-track" it.

How much is the ABUAD acceptance fee?

ABUAD does not publish the acceptance fee publicly. The most credible reports put it at around ₦100,000 for fresh students, but you should confirm the exact current amount on your admission offer page on the ABUAD portal or with the admissions office before paying.

Can I upload my O'Level result to JAMB by myself?

No. O'Level results can only be uploaded at a JAMB-accredited CBT centre or a JAMB state office, for a service fee of roughly ₦700 to ₦1,000. You cannot do it from a phone or personal computer. Verify the grades on the centre's screen before leaving, and confirm on CAPS after about 24 hours.

What is the correct ABUAD admission portal?

The correct address is admissions.abuad.edu.ng, with an "s" at the end of "admissions." The old singular address (admission.abuad.edu.ng) that some blogs still link to is dead. Pay only through the official portal or ABUAD's published bank accounts.

How much of the school fees do I have to pay after admission?

Per ABUAD's official post-admission guidance: MBBS students must pay 100% of school fees upfront; all other courses can pay a minimum of 50%. You generate an invoice on the student portal (Menu > Payments > School Fees Payment) and pay via Paydirect at any bank, or via Quickteller for amounts under ₦1,000,000. Hostel rooms are first come, first served, and unpaid room selections reset every 72 hours.

My ABUAD admission letter arrived but my JAMB letter has not. Am I stuck?

No. The two letters come from different bodies and often arrive weeks apart, with the ABUAD letter typically first. ABUAD allows you to continue your registration while the JAMB letter is pending. Accept your admission on CAPS as soon as your status shows "Admitted," then print the JAMB letter (₦1,000) when it becomes available.

What to Do Next

You now have the full map: results, O'Level upload, ABUAD account, Post-UTME, registration, CAPS, acceptance fee, letters. Work through the steps in order and none of them will surprise you.

1. Do Step 2 today if CAPS shows "Awaiting Result." It is the single most common silent blocker.
2. Bookmark the two portals that matter: admissions.abuad.edu.ng and efacility.jamb.gov.ng. Ignore every other address.
3. Once your admission is in, start preparing for resumption with our 10 things to know before going to ABUAD and the complete ABUAD packing list. A full resumption and registration guide is coming next on this blog, so check back.

Written by the Everything ABUAD Team

Built from the current admission cycle: portal steps verified against the live ABUAD admission portal and JAMB eFacility, fees cross-checked across multiple sessions, and the walkthroughs drawn from students who went through this exact process.

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