2025 UTME: More students scored above 300- JAMB report
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that 17,025 candidates representing 0.88 per cent of the total 1,931,467 scored 300 and above in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB disclosed this on Sunday in its report while releasing the results of candidates who wrote the resit examination.
The report signals a significant improvement in performance compared with previous years since the adoption of the CBT format in 2013.
The released figure exceeds the 1,842,364 results released in 2024 and indicates a steady increase in UTME participation over the years.
In comparison, 8,401 candidates (0.46 per cent) achieved similar scores in 2024, while 5,318 (0.35 per cent) did so in 2023.
Earlier figures were generally lower, with only 724 candidates (0.06 per cent) scoring 300 and above in 2021, and none in both 2014 and 2013.
In the 250 and above category, 117,373 candidates (6.08 per cent) attained this range in 2025.
Of the 336,845 candidates rescheduled for the examination, the board said 21,082 others were absent.
“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,” JAMB said.
It also announced the release of withheld results of under-age candidates (except where litigation is involved), who performed below the established standards and those involved in ‘WhatsApp Runs’ and other misdemeanours.
“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”, said the Board.
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