A 2025 UTME candidate, Leesha, shared a heartbreaking observation from today’s exam:
“A lot of students missed their exam today because they didn’t do paper reprint for JAMB. I felt for them.”
This is a sad reminder of how one small but important task — printing your JAMB examination slip — can determine whether or not a candidate gets to sit for their exam.
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Why Reprinting Your JAMB Slip Is Crucial
The reprinted slip contains:
- Your exact exam date
- Your reporting time
- The venue and full address of your CBT centre
- Your seat number and batch
Without this slip, candidates cannot gain access to the exam hall.
What Went Wrong for the Affected Students?
Some candidates either:
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- Believed the reprint was optional
- Didn’t realize their exam date had been shifted earlier
- Showed up with only the original registration slip, which doesn’t have the centre or time info
As a result, they were turned away at the gate.
What Can Be Done?
JAMB has made it clear that candidates must reprint their slips themselves. It’s not automatically sent by email or SMS. Here’s what candidates should always remember:
- Visit the official JAMB slip reprint portal
- Enter your registration number, phone number, or email
- Print it out at least a few days before the exam
If a candidate misses their exam, they won’t be rescheduled, except in cases of verified technical failure at the centre — not personal oversight.
Final Advice
Leesha’s story is a painful but important warning: Always reprint your JAMB slip, double-check your date, and show up early. Missing the exam due to something preventable can be one of the hardest lessons for any student.
Please have mercy upon us is mislocate my utme center yesterday and am not able to sit for the exam
I wasn’t able to write my jamb yesterday because of my biometrics thumbprint
I went home crying,I was so paining that I wasn’t able to write my jamb ever jamb exams ,even with all my preparations I arrived very early to my jamb center (5:30am) ,I slept around ilupeju just to wake up very early to make my exams all the way from apapa.
Please 🙏😭jamb officials should make a reschedule for us 😭😭😭it’s very painful
Please make a reschedule for us😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🙏.I missed my jamb .I arrived at the center only to find out I will not be allowed in.😭😭🙏. please consider us.🙏😭.
I went home crying 😭😭.
Please make a reschedule for us😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🙏.I missed my jamb .I arrived at the center only to find out I will not be allowed in.😭😭🙏. please consider us.🙏😭.
I went home crying 😭😭.
Please help us out Mr. Oloyede
I worked in an hospital and I was on a night shift,missed my exam due to time frame and distance to the center
Though I’m down hearted since this afternoon when I heard the exam time has elapsed and i won’t be taking it anymore.
Please won’t mind if anything could be done, we know we’re partially at fault’s here but please help us out.
I was unable to write my jamb yesterday
I was so sadd 😔
I went to the jamb center around 8:30
And my exam was 12:00
I sat down
I went to the place I am going to do my jamb around 12:00
And they did not allow me
I was unable to hear because the microphone was not working
They had to use their voice so I didn’t hear yesterday
I went home crying
Please help us 🙏
Those that missed it ,you can help us reschedule another time and date.
Thank you so much 💓
Mr.Oloyede pls help us out
I missed my jamb exam because I mis locate my center
And I was in the wrong center for hours before I know that is not my center
When I get to the my center time has gone and I was not allow to sit for the exam
I missed my jamb 😭, cause I was sick and I was rushed to the hospital on 20 ,before I was released on 24 Thursday morning 😓 which is on my jamb date
Pls help me for reschedule please 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😪
Please considered
I missed my jamb 😭, cause I was sick and I was rushed to the hospital on 20 ,before I was released on 24 Thursday morning 😓 which is on my jamb date
Pls help me for reschedule please 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😪
Please considered us
I missed my jamb today because I was 30mins late to the jamb center because I was trying to locate the center, when I got there I was told that they’ve pushed it that there is nothing they can do. Please help me jamb, this is the only hope I have to go to the university, please help even if is to reschedule I don’t mind going to the center to sleep 🙏🙏
Good day sir, please sir i was supposed to write my exam on the 25 at (moncordel international school Akpajo port Harcourt) I went very early as expected,only for our exam to start generator got spoilt when later worked on the generator only few persons were able to write,we were later told by 6:30pm to do another reprinting that night that we will be rescheduled.i did mine that night as instructed but my previous details were still showing,same thing 26th morning and my previous details was still given only to reprint again by 11:30 and realize that my exam is by 12pm that same day only to get to my center by 2pm because of the distance and traffic and I was told I should come back next year that nothing can be done.i went back home crying because next year is a whole lot of waiting for me,hv put in a lot of effort to be stranded like this pls sir help us.thanks