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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of its resit examination for candidates affected by its 2025 UTME technical error.
The results from JAMB’s original 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination were released on May 9.
An analysis showed that more than 78 per cent of candidates scored less than 200 points out of the 400 maximum points obtainable.
JAMB undertook a review in response to public protests and uncovered a major “technical error”.
On May 14, Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, said that the results of 379,997 candidates across 157 centres were affected.
He cited faulty server updates that prevented candidate responses from being uploaded during the first three days of the exam.
Oloyede said the problem, which was caused by one of its technical service providers, went undetected before the results were released.
JAMB conducted a resit exam for those affected in Lagos and the south-east, starting from May 16 and extending beyond May 19.
The results of that resit were released on Sunday, May 25, after extensive stakeholder consultation.
Of the 336,845 candidates scheduled for the resit, JAMB said 21,082 were absent.
The board said performance analysis remains consistent with those from the past twelve years of UTME.
More to follow…
[The Cable]