{"id":29378,"date":"2025-05-15T14:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/?p=29378"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:03:24","slug":"jamb-confirms-technical-fault-in-2025-utme-over-370000-candidates-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/jamb-confirms-technical-fault-in-2025-utme-over-370000-candidates-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMB Confirms Technical Fault in 2025 UTME \u2014 Over 370,000 Candidates Affected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially confirmed that a technical fault affected the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results. According to the board, the error occurred during the first three days of the exam and disrupted the accurate recording of candidate responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This announcement, made by JAMB earlier this week, has sparked concern among students and parents nationwide\u2014especially those in the <strong>Lagos<\/strong> and <strong>South-East zones<\/strong>, where the impact was most severe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JAMB revealed that the issue stemmed from a <strong>software update<\/strong> that wasn\u2019t properly installed across all test centre servers. The technical service provider in charge failed to ensure that the update was deployed effectively. As a result, <strong>student responses weren\u2019t recorded<\/strong> correctly before the marking process began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of <strong>157 centres<\/strong> were impacted, affecting <strong>379,997 candidates<\/strong> across two major regions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lagos State<\/strong>: 65 centres | <strong>206,610 candidates<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>South-East Zone<\/strong>: 92 centres | <strong>173,387 candidates<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This disruption meant many students received <strong>inaccurate scores<\/strong> or were unable to access their results altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of <strong>157 centres<\/strong> were impacted, affecting <strong>379,997 candidates<\/strong> across two major regions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lagos State<\/strong>: 65 centres | <strong>206,610 candidates<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>South-East Zone<\/strong>: 92 centres | <strong>173,387 candidates<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This disruption meant many students received <strong>inaccurate scores<\/strong> or were unable to access their results altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JAMB has confirmed that <strong>all affected candidates<\/strong> will receive updated information via:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u2705 <strong>SMS<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2705 <strong>Email<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2705 <strong>Direct phone calls<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidates are advised to <strong>monitor their devices closely<\/strong> and <strong>reprint their slips<\/strong> as soon as they receive a notification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially confirmed that a technical fault affected the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[55,611,64,2578],"class_list":["post-29378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-education","tag-jamb","tag-student","tag-utme"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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