JAMB Fixes Date For Mop-Up Examination, Candidates To Print Slips On Monday
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has offered another opportunity to candidates who failed the biometric test and others who were absent to rewrite the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Examination Time
The examination will be held on Saturday June, 2025.
The first session for the examination day starts, as usual, at 8:00 a.m. Candidates for the 8:00 a.m. session are, therefore, advised in their interest to arrive one or one and a half hours before the actual commencement of the examination at 8:00 a.m.
Eligible and genuine candidates are advised to print their examination notification slips from Monday, 23rd June 2025, in preparation for the mop-up examination scheduled for Saturday, 28th June 2025.
In a statement signed by Mr Fabian Benjamin, the Board spokesman, the approved date for the 2025 UTME Mop-Up is Saturday, 28th June.
According to the Board, “This examination will accommodate the 5,096 spill-over candidates and those who failed biometric verification during the main exercise.
“Also, due to the special dispensation granted to absentee candidates of the 2025 main and resit examinations, 91,742 candidates who were absent in both or either of the main and resit examinations would also be given this opportunity, which is granted only for the 2025 season.
“Thus, 96,838 candidates are being rescheduled for the 2025 mop-up exercise in 183 centres across the nation, while others are kept on standby.”
The Board condemned that activities of all CBT Centres implicated in malpractices and commended the security agencies particularly the State Security Service(SSS), the Nigeria Police Force(NPF), the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDS) for their extra -ordinary devotion, passion and tenacity in the on-going nation-wide special investigation of identity theft and examination malpractices syndicates that including few JAMB officials, professional examination takers and syndicates of some school proprietors and tutorial centres.
The Board assured that candidates registered in delisted examination towns would be assigned to examination towns closest to the delisted towns as it seeks the understanding of such candidates
It revealed that institutions of apprehended undergraduates are already being notified of the gross misconduct of their students to invoke the violation of the matriculation oath already taken by the students to flush them out of the various tertiary institutions.
The Board stated that the measure was in addition to their prosecution under the Examination Malpractice Act, 1999, which makes provisions for imprisonment even of the underage and their indulgent parents.
The statement added, “Special squads of invigilators/security personnel are being deployed in the continuation of the current war already declared by the Hon. Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Tunji Alausa, CON on examination malpractices and their perpetrators both high and low.”