JAMB Releases Results of UTME Resit Examination

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of candidates who wrote this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) retake.

The results were released after a meeting of the Board’s Chief External Examiners (CEEs) in all states of the federation.

JAMB announced the release of the results in a statement yesterday in Abuja by its Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin.

The statement said of the 336,845 candidates who were eventually scheduled after isolated good sessions of the affected centres were excluded and their previously unverified candidates were added, 21,082 were absent.

The statement reads: “It would be recalled that after the conduct of the resit examination, a meeting of the Board’s Chief External Examiners (CEEs) in all states of the federation was held to consider the results. In attendance at the meeting were a few notables.

“After consideration of the report of the resit examination, and extensive deliberations thereon, a sub-committee, chaired by the Vice Chancellor of the National Open University, Prof. Olufemi Peters, who is also the CEE FCT, was constituted to confirm that the results are in order.

“The CEEs reviewed the exercise and directed that an expert in psychometrics, Prof. Boniface Nworgu, be invited to analyse and endorse the results for subsequent release.

“As part of the healing process, the meeting resolved that the withheld results of underage candidates (except where litigation is involved), who performed below the established standards, be released.

“Such result does not, however, qualify them for admission, as 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.

“Release of Result of Candidates Involved in ‘WhatsApp Runs’ and Other Misdemeanours: This category of candidates was found to have been involved in illicit solicitation of assistance. The meeting emphasised that its decision is not an endorsement of candidates’ unacceptable acts, but rather a once and for all waiver. Candidates were thus advised to refrain from joining questionable ‘WhatsApp and other anti-social groups.’”

The statement added: “All results are now released except those of candidates who committed examination infractions and those slated for mop-up examinations. While releasing the results, it should be emphasised that recent discoveries particularly by the security agencies have necessitated the withdrawal of some of the results of implicated candidates across the country whose results have been previously released.

“Candidates with earlier released results need not recheck their results as candidates affected by the withdrawal are being notified through text messages on their registered lines, their profiles and emails.

“It should be emphasised that the charges for shortcode 55019/66019 (text messages) do not generate revenue to JAMB, as being ignorantly peddled. The shortcode approach is to protect the critical data of the candidates and to curtail their cybercafé-extortion during their desperate check for results.”

Also, the results of this year’s UTME conducted by JAMB have shown remarkable improvements in the performances of candidates who wrote the examination in the last 12 years.

Data from the board showed a clear upward trend in the performances of candidates who sat for the examination.

According to official data released yesterday in Abuja by JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, 17,025 candidates, representing 0.88 per cent of the total 1,931,467 who sat for the 2025 UTME, scored 300 and above.

The score marked the highest number of top scorers since the Computer-Based Test (CBT) format was introduced in 2013 by JAMB.

In comparison, only 8,401 candidates (0.46 per cent) scored 300 and above in 2024, while 5,318 (0.35 per cent) reached the same benchmark in 2023 and 5,833 (0.34 per cent) in 2022.

Also, only 724 candidates (0.06 per cent) scored 300+ in 2021, and none in both 2014 and 2013.

The data also indicated a full release of results in 2025, with all 1,931,467 candidates receiving their scores surpassing the 1,842,364 results released in 2024.

A further analysis of the 2025 results showed that 117,373 candidates (6.08 per cent) scored 250 and above, a significant increase from 77,070 (4.18 per cent) in 2024 and 56,736 (3.73 per cent) in 2023.

A total of 65,336 (3.8 per cent) candidates scored 250 and above in 2022 and 21,368 candidates (1.63 per cent) scored 250 and above in 2021.

Also, 565,988 candidates representing 29.3 per cent scored 200 and above, compared to 439,961 (24 per cent) in 2024 and 355,689 (23.36 per cent) in 2023.

Despite these gains, the majority of candidates – 1,365,479 (70.7 per cent) still scored below 200 in 2025.

But this figure showed a slight improvement from 76 per cent in 2024 and 76.64 per cent in 2023.

A year-by-year comparison underscored the fluctuating nature of performance trends.