The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said only 4756 out of the 1955069 candidates that sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scored an aggregate of 320 and above.
This is according to a post titled, “STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF the 2025 UTME RESULT” on JAMB’s official X handle on Monday.
It also disclosed that 50% of the candidates scored between 160-199, while 2031 candidates scored below 100.
TheFact Daily recalls that the 2025 UTME commenced on Thursday, April 24th across various Computer Based Test (CBT) centers in the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Board informed that 40,247 underage candidates were permitted to demonstrate their exceptional abilities. However, only 467 of them representing 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.
Also, of the total number registered, 97 candidates were involved in examination infractions, while 2,157 others were currently undergoing investigations for suspected malpractices.
Additionally, “71,701 candidates were absent. Those facing biometric challenges are also under investigation, and those who are cleared will be rescheduled for examination at designated centres”, JAMB said.
Furthermore, few of the results, including those of blind candidates and others in the JEOG candidates group, are still being processed.
The Board also hinted that a press conference to announce the individual results of candidates and to facilitate result checking will be held later this week.
