What You Should Know About the 2025 UTME Resit Performance

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has provided a comprehensive update following the conclusion of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the rescheduled exams held for affected candidates.

According to JAMB Spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the 2025 UTME marks a significant milestone in the board’s examination history. A total of 17,025 candidates scored 300 and above, representing just 0.88% of those who sat for the exam. This, according to Benjamin, makes the 2025 UTME “the best result since 2013 when JAMB adopted the Computer Based Test (CBT).”

In the wake of technical disruptions and suspicious activities that led to the cancellation of sessions in several centres across six states, the board rescheduled the examination for over 336,000 candidates. JAMB noted that “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.”

Amid speculation that some candidates who may have scored high in the cancelled sessions had their valid results invalidated, the board clarified that these concerns were without basis. JAMB stated that “only a handful scored up to 217 in the affected sessions, while 99% scored below 200 marks,” adding that such claims were “totally unfounded.” This, it said, underscores the credibility of the decision to cancel those sessions and reflects the board’s commitment to ensuring fairness and transparency in its processes.

Exam Malpractice: How Some Undergraduates Got Involved in the 2025 UTME Scandal

JAMB also raised alarm over the scale of exam malpractice recorded during the just-concluded exercise. In a disturbing revelation, the board disclosed that many of those involved in organised fraud were university undergraduates. These individuals reportedly worked in concert with professional exam mercenaries to manipulate the process. According to the board, their method was to “pair candidates with professional mercenaries (after wilful disruption of sitting arrangements) who had registered for the UTME for the purpose of access to the examination hall.”

Dr. Benjamin expressed deep concern, stating that “unfortunately, many undergraduates of tertiary institutions are found to be involved in this nefarious practice.” So far, over 3,000 candidates have been identified nationwide as either beneficiaries or accomplices in what the board described as “extraordinary examination fraud.” JAMB has assured that once investigations are concluded, “all candidates implicated in these unwholesome activities will have their results withdrawn as soon as incontrovertible proofs are established, even if the results have been released.”

Despite these challenges, the board emphasized that the overall performance remains within historical range, pointing to consistent performance analysis trends between “11% in 2013 and 34% in 2016.” JAMB reaffirmed its commitment to preserving the integrity of the examination process and protecting the credibility of the Computer-Based Testing model against any attempt to “discredit not only the CBT process but also the Board itself.”