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2025 UTME: JAMB breaks new record

News Update

A total of 2,030,627 candidates have registered for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

This is the highest number of applications the board has received in its history of conducting UTME.

Last year, over 1.9 million candidates applied for the UTME.

The examination will start on April 25 in over 700 computer based-test centres nationwide.

JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, confirmed the development while speaking with our correspondent yesterday in Abuja.

The board closed its registration for the examination on March 8.

Over 200,115 candidates are expected to participate in an optional mock examination on April 5 to farmiliase the candidates with the system.

Benjamin explained that the UTME registration figures did not include foreign students who registered to write the examination abroad.

He said: “This is the highest we have registered in the history of the examination. These numbers do not include that of foreign students who will write the examination outside the country.

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“Last year, we registered over 1.9 million candidates, including candidates for direct entry examination.

“We hope to commence registration for direct entry tomorrow (today).”

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