With the final results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, it has been revealed that 1,365,479 candidates scored below 200 marks.
The figure shrank from over 1.5 million initially released by JAMB, indicating that about 200,000 more candidates crossed the average score.
It could be recalled that outrage had greeted JAMB’s release of UTME results when it announced that over 1.5 candidates scored less than 200.
This led to protests, and then admittance to a technical glitch by the board.
It then announced a glitch for 379,000 candidates in the five South-East states and Lagos.
On Sunday, JAMB released the resit results, with many of the candidates crossing the 200 mark.
JAMB noted that the majority of candidates — 1,365,479 (70.7 per cent) out of 1.9 million candidates — scored below 200 after both the original exam and the resit.
In the original results released by JAMB on May 9, 2025, over 1.5 million candidates out of 1.9 million candidates who took the exam had scored below 200 out of the total 400 marks, raising concerns in the country.
According to JAMB, the new results reflect an improvement in performance compared with previous years since the adoption of the Computer-Based Test format in 2013.
According to the report, 1,931,467 results were released in 2025, representing 100 per cent of the candidates who sat the examination.
This figure surpasses the 1,842,364 results released in 2024 and indicates a steady increase in UTME participation over the years.