Why did so many candidates have to redo the JAMB UTME in 2025 and what went wrong?

Updated May 24, 2025 • 1-min read

Posted by Anonymous

May 23, 2025

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Posted by Anonymous - May 23, 2025

Yeah, it’s honestly wild how many people got caught up in this. From what I’ve heard, JAMB had to do a massive UTME resit this year because some super annoying technical glitches happened during the main exam. Apparently, a server update from their tech company went sideways and a bunch of candidates’ answers didn’t even get uploaded. Like, can you imagine writing all that and then it’s just lost? That would make me so mad! It mostly happened in a few states like Lagos and the south-east, and in total, about 387,000 people had to retake the test. JAMB said it wasn’t their fault, but honestly, it’s not fair to the students at all. It’s happened before, too, so it kinda shows they really need to fix their stuff. No one wants to study all over again just because of some glitch! I hope this makes JAMB sort out their systems better.

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