The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of results for the 2025 UTME resit, conducted for candidates affected by technical issues during the initial exams.
According to the board, a total of 336,845 candidates were rescheduled for the makeup examination. However, 21,082 of those candidates did not show up for the test. JAMB did not provide an explanation for the significant number of absentees.
The results were made public through a statement issued on Sunday by JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin.
The statement read: “Of the 336,845 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.”
Prior to the resit, the exam body disclosed that only 22.13% of candidates who sat for the initial 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scored 200 and above.
Out of a total of 1,955,069 candidates who took the exam, only 432,829 scored 200 or higher.
JAMB broke down the score distribution as follows:
- 320 and above: 4,756 candidates (0.24%)
- 300–319: 7,658 (0.39%)
- 300 and above (total): 12,414 (0.63%)
- 250–299: 73,441 (3.76%)
- 200–249: 334,560 (17.11%)
- 160–199: 983,187 (50.29%)
- 140–159: 488,197 (24.97%)
- 120–139: 57,419 (2.94%)
- 100–119: 3,820 (0.20%)
- Below 100: 2,031 (0.10%)
JAMB also noted that 40,247 underage candidates were allowed to participate in the exam to demonstrate their “exceptional abilities.” However, the board stated, “Only 467 of these candidates (1.16%) achieved scores that meet the threshold for exceptional ability as defined for the UTME, with their performance in the subsequent three stages still pending.”
