2025 UTME: JAMB orders candidates to reprint slips for rescheduled exam

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all the candidates affected in the 157 centres during the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to reprint reprint their slips for rescheduled examination dates.

The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, gave the directive at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Oloyede, who acknowledged flaws in the conduct of the 2025 UTME, noted that 379,997 candidates in the five states of the South- East and Lagos will be rescheduled for another UTME.

He said the affected candidates will start getting text messages from JAMB starting Thursday, adding that the candidates will retake their examinations starting from Friday, May 16.

The JAMB boss stated: “We have decided that all the candidates affected in the 157 centres out of 882 centres will be contacted to retake their examinations starting from Friday, May 16, 2025.

“These candidates are to be contacted through text messages addressed to their registered phone numbers, their email addresses, their profiles and phone calls by JAMB. They are directed to reprint their examination slips for the rescheduled examination dates.

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“While not oblivious of the fact that WAEC examinations are ongoing, we have contacted WAEC, and in an unprecedented show of solidarity, the Council has graciously decided to as much as possible accommodate us within the WAEC time-slot.

“Any candidate with a clash of timetable, particularly for Agricultural Science on Friday, would be rescheduled.

“However, we have endeavored to ensure that no such exists. Most, if not all, such candidates are scheduled for Saturday.

“Fortunately, the prescribed texts for SSCE are also the prescribed texts for UTME apart from the reading text of the UTME, which carries just 10 marks in our Use of English test.”

The Star