The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the resit Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates impacted by the 2025 “technical error.”
The original 2025 UTME results were made public on May 9. Analysis revealed that over 78 percent of candidates scored below 200 out of the maximum 400 points.
JAMB launched a review following public outcry and protests, which led to the discovery of a serious “technical error.”
On May 14, JAMB Registrar Ishaq Oloyede disclosed that results from 379,997 candidates across 157 centres were affected by faulty server updates that blocked the upload of candidate responses during the first three days of the exam.
Oloyede explained that the fault, caused by one of JAMB’s “technical service providers,” went unnoticed until after results had been released.
In response, JAMB organized a resit exam in Lagos and the South-East, commencing May 16 and extending beyond May 19.
After consultations with key stakeholders, the results of that resit were released on Sunday, May 25.
Out of the 336,845 candidates scheduled for the resit, JAMB said 21,082 were absent.
The board added that the performance trends in the 2025 exam are “consistent with those from the past twelve years.”
“The percentage of candidates who scored 200 and above ranged between the 11 percent peak in 2013 and 34 percent in 2016, showing a continued struggle with high scores across the years.
Beyond the technical errors, JAMB said it uncovered “disturbing levels of collusion and fraud” during its investigation.
It alleged that some centres collaborated with school proprietors to “hack local networks” and “remotely submit candidate responses.”
Others allegedly engaged in “photo-blending” to match candidates’ faces with impersonators, many of whom were undergraduates.
According to JAMB, multiple fingerprints were also registered for single candidates, with some centres using LAN extensions to reach offsite “strong rooms” that enabled external manipulation of the exam environment.
It reported that “mercenary candidates” were used, and some centres deliberately disrupted seating arrangements to allow professional test-takers to pair up with genuine candidates.
More than 3,000 candidates are currently under investigation, and results have been withdrawn wherever malpractice is confirmed.
JAMB also accused some individuals of spreading false narratives about the cancelled UTME results.
It cited Olisa Gabriel Chukwuemeka, who claimed a score of 326 on social media.
Upon investigation, his actual score was found to be 180, leading to the deactivation of his account and a public correction by the board.