Over 200,000 more candidates have scored above the 200-mark benchmark in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) following a resit conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
The fresh results, released on Sunday, reflect a marked improvement in performance after JAMB was compelled to organise a resit for 379,000 candidates. This followed widespread criticism and outrage over the initial results released on May 9, which showed that more than 1.5 million of the 1.9 million candidates scored below 200 out of a total 400.
The mass failure triggered national concern, with parents, educationists, and candidates blaming technical errors, system crashes, and abrupt submission of scripts during the computer-based tests, particularly in Lagos and South-East centres.
JAMB launched an internal review and acknowledged that both technical and human errors had affected the credibility of results in several locations. The resit was swiftly organised for affected centres.
According to JAMB, the number of candidates who scored 200 and above rose to 565,988 (29.3 per cent), up from 24 per cent in 2024 and 23.36 per cent in 2023. This improvement translates to roughly 200,000 additional candidates surpassing the average mark after the resit.
Despite the uptick, a majority — 1,365,479 or 70.7 per cent — still scored below 200.
JAMB also noted steady growth in higher score brackets. Candidates scoring 250 and above rose to 117,373 (6.08 per cent), compared to 77,070 (4.18 per cent) in 2024. Those scoring 300 and above also increased to 8,401 (0.46 per cent), from 5,318 in 2023.
In total, 1,931,467 results were released this year — the highest since JAMB adopted the Computer-Based Test system in 2013 — surpassing the 1,842,364 results issued in 2024.
The exam body has yet to confirm whether further reforms will follow but insists it remains committed to fairness and accuracy in its conduct of national entrance examinations.
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