The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has formally accepted full responsibility for the mass failures observed in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
During a press conference held on Wednesday in Abuja, the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, visibly moved by the circumstances, sobbing, announced that approximately 379,997 candidates who participated in the recently concluded 2025 examination would be required to undertake a re-examination.
This followed widespread complaints of glitches, unusually low scores, and alleged irregularities in the just-concluded UTME.
Wiping his face with a handkerchief between sentences, Oloyede accepted complete responsibility for the staff’s negligence.
He announced that a re-examination would be administered in 65 centers across Lagos and 92 centers within the Owerri Zone, encompassing the five states of the South East.
Persecondnews gathered that out of 1.9 million candidates who sat for the UTME, over 1.5 million scored below 200 out of 400.
The examination agency reported that out of 1,955,069 processed results, only 4,756 candidates (0.24%) scored 320 or above, and 7,658 candidates (0.39%) scored between 300-319, with a total of 12,414 candidates (0.63%) achieving scores of 300 or above.
Also, 73,441 candidates (3.76 per cent) scored between 250 and 299 while 334,560 candidates (17.11 per cent) scored between 200 and 249.
A total of 983,187 candidates (50.29 per cent) scored between 160 and 199, which is widely regarded as the minimum threshold for admissions in many institutions.
In the same vein, 488,197 candidates (24.97 per cent) scored between 140 and 159, 57,419 candidates (2.94 per cent) scored between 120 and 139, 3,820 candidates (0.20 per cent) scored between 100 and 119, and 2,031 candidates (0.10 per cent) scored below 100.
Over 75 per cent of all candidates (1.5 million) scored below 200, average score seeing as the examination is graded over 400.
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