Candidates who registered but missed the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will have another opportunity to sit the examination.<\/p>\n
JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, a professor, disclosed on Wednesday that the board would conduct a mop-up examination for candidates who missed either the UTME in April or the rescheduled UTME in May.<\/p>\n
Mr Oloyede said almost five per cent \u2013 about 19,000 candidates \u2013 of the 379,997 candidates expected to sit the rescheduled UTME were absent.<\/p>\n
JAMB had initially disclosed that 71,701 candidates were absent when the UTME was conducted. <\/p>\n
This means about 90,000 candidates would have a second opportunity to sit the UTME. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are creating a new mop-up. Even those who missed the earlier exam due to absence will get another opportunity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He explained that it\u2019s not extraordinary for candidates to be allowed a make-up test when they miss the tests.<\/p>\n
Rescheduled UTME<\/p>\n
Apart from the UTME held in April, JAMB also conducted a rescheduled UTME for over 300,000 candidates last week after it found that a glitch affected their results. <\/p>\n
The glitch affected candidates in 65 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres in Lagos State and 92 CBT centres across Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi, and Enugu States.<\/p>\n
JAMB found the errors after it conducted a review of UTME results following widespread concerns of low scores by candidates with a track record of better performance in both the UTME and other examinations.<\/p>\n
Mr Oloyede admitted the errors, apologised to the candidates and announced the rescheduling of the UTME for affected candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Candidates who registered but missed the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will have another opportunity to sit the examination. JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, a professor, disclosed on Wednesday that the board would conduct a mop-up examination for candidates who missed either the UTME in April or the rescheduled UTME in May. Mr Oloyede said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[48,183,134,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-academics-daily","9":"tag-exams","10":"tag-jamb","11":"tag-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicsdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}