The results of the recently completed 2025 UTME retake exam for applicants at locations affected by the technical glitches have been made public by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Applicants can now check their results for the resit examination.
This was revealed in a statement released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday.
A glitch that affected 157 centres in Lagos State and the southeast caused JAMB to reschedule the UTME for over 300,000 candidates whose results were impacted.
“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,” the board said.
Absentee candidates to retake UTME
The board said that candidates who missed the first or rescheduled UTME would be allowed to retake it.
According to JAMB, 21,082 applicants were absent for the rescheduled UTME, while 71,701 candidates missed the initial one. 92,783 candidates in all are qualified to retake the examination.
JAMB expresses regret over the glitches that caused the examination to be rescheduled.
JAMB uncovers examination malpractices
According to the board, the review conducted following the glitch has also uncovered a number of “alarming” practices that have been used by candidates and some school and computer-based test (CBT) centre owners, aggravating irregularities in exams.
At the request of the board, educational measurement and evaluation professor Boniface Nworgu reviewed the results before JAMB made them public.
A review by a committee of Chief External Examiners was also conducted after Mr Nworgu’s review.
The committee, which is led by professor Olufemi Peters, the vice-chancellor of the National Open University, was established to verify that the results are correct, according to JAMB.
17,025 candidates score over 300
The board has also made the results of the statistical analysis public.
17,025, or 0.88 percent of the 1.9 million applicants who took the UTME this year, according to JAMB, received scores higher than 300.
565,988, or 29.3 percent scored above 200 points, while 117,373, or 6.08 percent scored above 250 points, according to the explanation.
1.3 million candidates score below 300
According to JAMB, 1.3 million applicants, or 70.7 percent, received a UTME score below 200.
Nonetheless, the board observed that performance analysis keeps pace with outcomes from the previous 12 years, ranging from 11 percent in 2013 to 34 percent in 2016.
Underage candidates’ results
Additionally, JAMB stated that it has decided to release the withheld results of the underage candidates who did not meet the required standards “except where litigation is involved”.
The board clarified that candidates’ underage UTME scores do not qualify them for admission.
It stated that during the registration process, the candidates had already agreed to sign an undertaking stating that they would only be given consideration for underage special admission if they met the requirements.
Implicated CBT centres placed on blacklist
JAMB decided that all of the implicated CBT centres should be placed on a blacklist and that the owners of those centres should face legal action after denouncing the involvement of certain CBT centres in major registration and exam malpractices.
“In addition, the identified individuals who directly registered the candidates with modified pictures and biometrics be apprehended and prosecuted,” the board said.
The board also stated that certain candidates were discovered to have engaged in a number of misdemeanours, such as requesting help during certain “WhatsApp Runs.”
“The meeting emphasised that its decision is not an endorsement of candidates’ unacceptable acts, but rather a once-and-for-all waiver.”
Candidates were cautioned against joining dubious WhatsApp groups and other anti-social groups.