The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released a comprehensive statistical breakdown of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results, offering a full picture of how Nigerian candidates performed in the examination conducted across the country.
Students and parents had lamented frustrations and chaos emanating from the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which began on Thursday, April 24, across the country.
There were reports of network and technical issues affecting the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) computer-based test (CBT) centers, potentially delaying or preventing candidates from taking the examination.
According to JAMB official figures, a total of 1,955,069 candidates sat for the UTME, with performance across score ranges as follows: 320 and above (4,756 or 0.24 percent), 300–319 (7,658 or 0.39 percent), 300 and above (12,414 or 0.63 percent), 250–299 (73,441 or 3.76 percent), 200–249 (334,560 or 17.11 percent).
The candidates who scored 160–199 are 983,187 or 50.29 percent; 140–159 (488,197 or 24.97 percent); 120–139 (57,419 or 2.94 percent), 100–119 (3,820 or 0.20 percent, while those who scored below 100 are 2,031 or 0.10 percent.
Many candidates who wrote their examinations described their experience as tougher than expected. Some reported that questions, especially in Mathematics, Physics, and Commerce, were challenging, while the Use of English was described as fair.
Ugonma Perpetual, who sat her UTME at Mount Gilead Convent at Igando in Lagos State, told BusinessDay that at her centre, the Use of English had problems, questions one to 10 did not show, but only answers; besides, the number of questions was more than what was stipulated. “Our English, it’s supposed to be one to 60, but it’s one to 55, and question one 10 didn’t appear,” she said.
Another candidate, who gave her name as Nmesoma, shared her worry after experiencing a technical issue during her examination, where her computer turned off automatically before she could finish.
SOURCE: Iheanyi Nwachukwu, BusinessDay
