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JAMB Extends Assessment Deadline for Underage UTME Candidates

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The date of the final evaluation for minors who took the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has been moved by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The Board claims that the change was required since 23 of the 71 universities selected by the impacted candidates did not submit their Post-UTME screening results by the original September 15, 2025, deadline. JAMB stated in a statement signed by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, its Public Communication Advisor, that some schools had not complied with the National Examinations Council’s (NECO) September 17 announcement…

JAMB Panel Finds Over 6,000 Cases of AI and Biometric Malpractice

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Over 6,000 instances of technology-enabled malpractice in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination have been found by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s  (JAMB) Special Committee on Examination Infractions. Dr. Jake Epelle, the chairman of the committee, revealed the results during Monday’s report presentation in Abuja. Epelle discovered that 1,878 candidates erroneously claimed to be albinos, while others engaged in biometric fraud and digital identity manipulation during the performance of the examination. The panel also recorded many examples of bogus National Identification Numbers, credential forgery, and syndicate-backed fraud operations. Exam…

JAMB Submits Report on 2025 UTME Malpractice

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According to a bulletin sent by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday, September 8, 2025, the Special Committee on Examination Infractions has finished its work and will present its findings to JAMB administration. The committee was established last month and given a three-week mission to look into any anomalies found in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. 6,458 alleged candidates were involved in the offense. It was charged with identifying the techniques, trends, instruments, and technology utilized to commit different examination offenses, and it was chaired by Dr.…

Hackers Reveal How They Breached CBT Exam Servers

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There have been allegations of widespread malpractice during the most recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME  against certain operators of computer-based test CBT centres  approved by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board. According to investigations, the operators gave tech-savvy people technical information, and those people subsequently broke into servers and changed how the test was conducted. Technical issues that JAMB encountered in May caused the 2025 UTME to be a huge failure, with 1.5 million of the 1.9 million candidates who took the test receiving scores below 200 out of…

JAMB Approves 150 as Minimum Cut-Off for Universities

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has established 150 as the minimum score required for university admission for the 2025/2026 school year. This decision was revealed on Tuesday during the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja. The board stated that the cut-off mark is 140 for colleges of nursing sciences, while both polytechnics and colleges of education have a cut-off mark of 100. For the next academic session, the minimum scores for admission are set at 150 for universities, 100…

Only 1.16% of underage UTME candidates show exceptional ability — JAMB

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Out of the 40,247 underage candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), only 467 — which is 1.16 per cent —scored high enough to be classified under the exceptional ability category, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has revealed. This from a total of 1,955,069 processed results for the year. In a post made on X (formerly Twitter) via its official handle @JAMBHQ, the examination body on Monday, disclosed that although the underage candidates were permitted to showcase their academic prowess, “their performance in the subsequent…

JAMB Announces Schedule For 2024 UTME Mock

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JAMB Announces Schedule For 2024 UTME Mock On Monday (today), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced that, unless there are any unexpected changes, a mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock-UTME) will be held on Thursday, March 7. In the public statement, the exam body stated that 260,249 candidates who expressed interest during registration will take part in the mock exam. It is worth recalling that the introduction of the Mock-UTME in 2017 by JAMB was aimed at giving interested candidates the chance to familiarize themselves with the CBT…