By Boluwatife Olanite
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced Saturday, 28 June, as the date for the mop-up examination for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidates who missed the previous examination dates.
JAMB, in a statement on its official X handle on Sunday, disclosed that 96,838 candidates who either missed the main examination or the resit will be sitting for the mop-up exam on Saturday, as it asked affected candidates to reprint their examination slips from Monday.
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MOP-UP UTME SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, 28TH JUNE: CANDIDATES TO COMMENCE PRINTING OF EXAMINATION NOTIFICATION SLIPS FROM MONDAY, 23RD JUNE 2025
Saturday 28th June 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 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.
