UTME Mock: JAMB Blacklists Candidates Who Patronised Rogue Websites

There is fire on the mountain for some candidates of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Mock examination which held Thursday.

They have now been blacklisted by the board following discovery that they patronised rogue websites.

No fewer than 211,000 candidates participated in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination Mock exam conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board across in the country.

JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede , while giving an update on the UTME mock exam, stated however that some candidates were patronising rogue websites in order to cheat in the exam.

He said the board followed up on such candidates, opening up a decoy website, to which some of them have now registered.

“We need to let the students know that the best way to pass the examination, UTME in particular, is to study.

“We are aware of some rogue websites asking people to come and pay that they can help.

“It cannot work. We have also opened our own rogue website. And as of this morning, about 180 students have paid.

“So those students, because to attempt to cheat is already an infraction. So those who paid into that account, looking for questions, we are going to deal firmly with them. And many of the institutions, UTME is not a school-based examination.

“We register students individually. And that is why we tell the students, do not give (out) your registration number. Do not register by proxy.

“Do not give your registration number to anybody. Because some of these schools want to be able to brag that, oh, my 10 students from my school scored 280.

“There was a state where even the governor of a state was misinformed, and they were celebrating nothing. So this type of thing that people want to cut corners, we are abreast of all this. And we are doing everything possible (to stop it).

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“We have about 180 of them. And we are going to deal with them firmly. We are going to cancel their results, both UTME and DE,” Oloyede said.

The registrar who spoke while monitoring the exercise at a CBT centre in Bwari, Abuja, said the results of the mock UTME examination were ready and would be released tomorrow.

“They will have the results tomorrow. The results will be ready. Those who finished, we are working now on their results, but we want to compare with the second batch, the third batch, and so on. And see that everything is working well. But later by tomorrow, they will have the results,” he said.