The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination Board JAMB, has revealed that about 200,000 more candidates crossed the 200 average mark in the Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination recently conducted.
Following reported technical and human errors that marred the original exam, JAMB had earlier rescheduled a resit for the affected candidates.
In the resit UTME results released, 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 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.
The new results reflect an improvement in performance compared with previous years since the adoption of the Computer-Based Test format in 2013.
In comparison with the outcome of the exercise in previous years, the figure indicates a steady increase in UTME participation over the years.
However, despite these improvements, the majority of candidates — 1,365,479 (70.7 per cent), scored below 200 in 2025.
JAMB is expected to issue further statements on the implications of this year’s results for the tertiary admissions process.