The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the full performance statistics of candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
It revealed that more than 75 percent of them scored below 200, a threshold often considered by many institutions as a baseline for admission.
According to JAMB, out of the 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the examination, only 12,414 (0.63%) scored 300 and above, while a staggering 983,187 candidates, representing 50.29%, scored between 160 and 199.
The full score distribution shows:320 and above: 4,756 (0.24%), 300–319: 7,658 (0.39%), 250–299: 73,441 (3.76%), 200–249: 334,560 (17.11%), 160–199: 983,187 (50.29%), 140–159: 488,197 (24.97%), 120–139: 57,419 (2.94%), 100–119: 3,820 (0.20%), Below 100: 2,031 (0.10%)
Recall that the examination, held nationwide starting April 24, was marred by complaints from candidates and parents alike over widespread technical hitches at various Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres.
Issues ranged from network disruptions to complete system shutdowns that prevented candidates from completing their exams.
Meanwhile, JAMB also disclosed that 40,247 underage candidates (below 16 years) took the exam under an exceptional provision. However, only 467 of them (1.16%) met the 300+ benchmark needed to qualify as “exceptionally gifted.”
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