The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has admitted to errors in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
The Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, diclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.
“What should have been a moment of joy has changed due to one or two errors,” Oloyede said.
According to him, “we set all machineries in order, regardless, there were still errors.”
He also announced that about 379,997 candidates in the just concluded academic exercise would retake the examination.
This follows JAMB admission that it had received an unusually high number of complaints regarding discrepancies in candidates’ scores.
Out of the 1.9 million candidates who sat for the 2025 UTME, over 1.5 million scored below 200 out of a possible 400 marks, triggering widespread concern in the education sector.
JAMB revealed that 1,955,069 results were processed. Of this figure, only 4,756 candidates (0.24%) scored 320 and above, while 7,658 candidates (0.39%) scored between 300 and 319. This brings the total number of those who scored above 300 to just 12,414 candidates (0.63%).
Meanwhile, 983,187 candidates (50.29%) scored between 160 and 199—a range generally considered the minimum cutoff for admission into many tertiary institutions
