JAMB Opens Portal for 2026 Mop-Up UTME Slip Printing - June 13 Exam Date Set

What just happened

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has commenced printing of notification slips for the 2026 Mop-Up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The Board's Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, confirmed on Friday, June 6, 2026 that the candidate portal is now open and eligible candidates can log in to download and print their slips ahead of the examination date.

The Mop-Up exam will hold on Thursday, June 13, 2026, the Board confirmed. This is the formal scheduling of the make-up exercise the Board had earlier flagged for candidates whose original UTME sittings were disrupted. JAMB has framed this clearly: the Mop-Up examination is the final UTME exercise for the 2026 admission cycle. No further examinations will be conducted after June 13, regardless of reason.

The development was carried on June 5 and June 6 by Vanguard in a report filed by Joseph Erunke from Abuja, by TVC News, and by The Authority in a piece by Felix Khanoba. All three reports cite the same official Board statement from Benjamin.

Who is eligible for the Mop-Up UTME

JAMB has set two specific eligibility paths for the Mop-Up.

The first covers candidates who could not sit the main UTME between April 16 and April 25 due to **technical issues** at the centre. This includes Computer-Based Test centre disruptions, server problems, power failures and other infrastructure faults that prevented a candidate from completing the exam through no fault of their own.

The second covers candidates who experienced **biometric verification challenges** during the original sitting. Where fingerprint matching failed, where the candidate's registration did not pull up on the centre's system, or where identity verification could not be completed, the candidate was withdrawn from the sitting and is now eligible for the Mop-Up.

Candidates whose results were withheld for other reasons - suspected examination malpractice, registration irregularities unrelated to biometric verification - are **not** automatically eligible for the Mop-Up. The Board's screening of those cases continues separately.

The practical test of eligibility is the portal itself. If you log in and can print a 2026 Mop-Up notification slip, you are in the cohort. If no slip is available against your profile, you are not.

How to print your 2026 Mop-Up UTME notification slip

The Board has not changed its standard slip-printing flow for this exercise. Eligible candidates should:

1. Visit the official JAMB portal directly at jamb.gov.ng - type the URL rather than searching, since lookalike scam sites often outrank the genuine portal during peak windows 2. Click "Login" and enter the registered email address and password used for the original UTME registration 3. Navigate to the "Print Examination Slip" or "Notification Slip" section 4. Select 2026 UTME (some portal builds may label this as 2026 Mop-Up UTME) 5. Confirm the candidate-specific details on the slip - centre address, date, time, candidate number and seat assignment 6. Click "Print" and save as PDF, then print to paper

Two practical notes. Print at least two physical copies and store one separately from the other. Photograph the slip with your phone as a third backup. And verify the centre address before exam day - Mop-Up centres are sometimes consolidated and may differ from the centre assigned for your original UTME sitting.

What the Mop-Up exam means for your 2026/2027 admission timeline

Mop-Up candidates are working against a compressed admission timeline relative to candidates who sat the main UTME, but the final deadlines are the same.

The likely sequence is: June 13 for the Mop-Up exam, late June for results release (the Board typically releases UTME results within two weeks of the sitting), July through August for post-UTME registration and screening at chosen institutions, October 31 as the public university admission acceptance deadline, and November 30 as the private university acceptance deadline.

Universities are expected to accept post-UTME applications from Mop-Up candidates once their results are released, on the same terms as main-UTME candidates. The institutional cut-off marks for the 2026 cycle - confirmed at the institutional level for federal, state and private universities - apply equally to Mop-Up candidates.

The squeeze is real. A Mop-Up candidate has roughly four to six weeks less time than a main-UTME candidate to complete the post-UTME and accept an admission offer. Planning post-UTME registration to begin the moment results are released, rather than waiting, materially improves admission chances for this cohort.

What to do before June 13

Practical preparation between today and exam day.

Print the notification slip immediately. Do not wait until exam week. Portal traffic spikes in the final 72 hours before any JAMB exam and printing failures during that window are common.

Confirm the assigned examination centre. If the centre is somewhere you have never been, make a route-checking trip before exam week. Mop-Up centres are sometimes in different states from candidates' homes - check the assignment carefully.

Charge your phone fully the night before. Plan to arrive at the centre 90 minutes before the scheduled time. Bring the printed notification slip, a valid means of identification (school identification, NIN slip or international passport), an HB pencil, an eraser and a ruler. Phones and calculators are not permitted inside the examination hall.

Re-confirm your biometric details registered with JAMB are current. Since biometric verification failures were a primary cause of the original UTME disruptions, candidates re-sitting through the Mop-Up should ensure their fingerprints register cleanly during the verification step on arrival.

Do not pay anyone claiming to "guarantee" Mop-Up success. JAMB does not authorise intermediaries to assist candidates with any part of the process. The exam is the only legitimate path to a 2026 admission for candidates in this cohort.

After the Mop-Up - admission processing

Once the Mop-Up results are released, the post-exam sequence is the same as for main-UTME candidates.

Log in to the JAMB portal to view the result. Compare your score against the institutional cut-off mark for your chosen course and institution. If you meet the cut-off, register for post-UTME at the chosen institution through the institution's own portal.

Monitor the JAMB Central Admissions Processing System for admission status updates. Universities process post-UTME applicants in waves through July, August and into September; the absence of an offer on a first list does not end your chances.

Candidates whose original 2026 UTME results were withheld may have parallel administrative processes running. Check both the Mop-Up portal status and the original UTME status separately. A Mop-Up result issued under your name does not automatically clear an earlier withholding flag - the Board continues to process those cases independently.