The results of applicants who took the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) retest this year have been made public by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
Following a meeting of the Board’s Chief External Examiners (CEEs) in each of the federation’s states, the results were made public.
In a statement released yesterday in Abuja, JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, declared the results.
According to the statement, 21,082 of the 336,845 candidates who were ultimately scheduled after the impacted centers’ isolated good sessions were eliminated and their previously unconfirmed applicants were added were not present.
A meeting of the Board’s Chief External Examiners (CEEs) in each state of the federation was conducted to discuss the results following the administration of the retake exam, according to the statement. Several important people attended the summit. A subcommittee led by Prof. Olufemi Peters, the Vice Chancellor of the National Open University and the CEE FCT, was established to verify that the results were in order following careful analysis of the retake exam report and lengthy discussions on it. After reviewing the exercise, the CEEs instructed that Prof. Boniface Nworgu, a psychometric expert, be asked to analyze and approve the results before they were made public.
The meeting decided to provide the withheld results of minor applicants who performed below the set standards as part of the healing process, unless litigation is involved.
“But, since they had previously signed an undertaking during the registration process acknowledging that only those who meet the prescribed standards would be considered for under-age special admission, such a result does not qualify them for admission.” Results of Candidates Accused of “WhatsApp Runs” and Other Offenses Are Released: It was discovered that this group of applicants had engaged in illegal help solicitation. The meeting emphasized that its decision is a one-time waiver rather than an endorsement of the candidates’ objectionable actions. It was suggested that candidates avoid joining dubious “anti-social groups.”
The meeting decided to provide the withheld results of minor applicants who performed below the set standards as part of the healing process, unless litigation is involved.
“But, since they had previously signed an undertaking during the registration process acknowledging that only those who meet the prescribed standards would be considered for under-age special admission, such a result does not qualify them for admission.” Results of Candidates Accused of “WhatsApp Runs” and Other Offenses Are Released: It was discovered that this group of applicants had engaged in illegal help solicitation. The meeting emphasized that its decision is a one-time waiver rather than an endorsement of the candidates’ objectionable actions. It was suggested that candidates avoid joining dubious “anti-social groups.”
It should be emphasized that JAMB does not profit from the fees associated with text messages sent to shortcodes 55019 and 66019 because they are being sold in an uninformed manner. The goal of the shortcode technique is to safeguard the candidates’ vital information and limit cybercafé-extortion while they are desperately looking for results. Additionally, the results of the JAMB-conducted UTME this year demonstrate notable gains in the performance of applicants who took the test during the previous 12 years.
The board’s data indicated that candidates’ performance on the test was clearly on the rise.
According to official data made public yesterday in Abuja by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, 17,025 candidates—or 0.88 percent of the 1,931,467 who took the 2025 UTME—scored 300 or higher.
Since JAMB launched the Computer-Based Test (CBT) format in 2013, this score represented the largest number of top scorers. Only 8,401 candidates (0.46 percent) achieved a score of 300 or higher in 2024, compared to 5,318 (0.35 percent) in 2023 and 5,833 (0.34 percent) in 2022. Additionally, none of the candidates in 2014 or 2013 received a score of 300 or above, and just 724 (0.06%) did so in 2021.
Additionally, the data showed that all 1,931,467 candidates received their results in 2025, surpassing the 1,842,364 results that were made public in 2024.
117,373 candidates (6.08 percent) scored 250 and above in 2025, according to a more thorough examination of the data. This represents a notable increase from the 77,070 (4.18 percent) in 2024 and the 56,736 (3.73 percent) in 2023. In 2022, 65,336 candidates (3.8%) achieved a score of 250 or higher, whereas 21,368 candidates (1.63%) achieved the same level in 2021.
Additionally, 565,988 candidates, or 29.3% of the total, received a score of 200 or higher, up from 439,961 in 2024 and 355,689 in 2023.
Even with these improvements, 1,365,479 (70.7%) of the candidates still received scores below 200 in 2025.
