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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that the mop-up examination for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will take place on Saturday, June 28, 2025.
The development was announced on Sunday in a social media post, with JAMB stating that 96,838 candidates will take the mop-up examination.
In the X post, JAMB shared that the 5,096 spill-over candidates and those who failed biometric verification during the main exercise would be part of the process.
The exam body added that 91,742 candidates who were absent from both or either of the main and resit examinations would also be given the opportunity, which is only for the 2025 UTME.
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“Saturday, June 28, has been approved for the conduct of the 2025 UTME mop-up examination. 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 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 only for the 2025 UTME.
“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,” JAMB said.
Candidates are to commence printing of the examination notification slips from Monday, June 23, 2025.
