The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that the outcomes of particular person candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) might be launched on Friday, Might 9, 2025.
This affirmation was made to Nairametrics by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, Public Communication Advisor at JAMB, stating that candidates who sat for this 12 months’s examination can start checking their outcomes from Friday.
Out of the over 1.95 million registered candidates nationwide, solely 21.5% scored above 200, in response to efficiency information launched by the Board.
Reacting to this final result, stakeholders within the training sector have expressed issues over the low efficiency price, calling for pressing reforms in instructing requirements and curriculum supply throughout secondary colleges.
Earlier this week, within the Statistical Evaluation of 2025 UTME Consequence launched by the Board, JAMB defined that the delay within the launch of particular person outcomes was resulting from ongoing analysis processes, significantly for blind candidates and people below the JAMB Equal Alternative Group (JEOG).
“Moreover, few of the outcomes, together with these of blind candidates and others within the JEOG candidates group, are nonetheless being processed.
A press convention to announce the person outcomes of candidates and to facilitate end result checking might be held later this week,” the Board famous.
Former presidential candidate and Labour Party chief, Peter Obi, has raised severe issues over the standard of Nigeria’s training system following the discharge of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) outcomes.
In an announcement posted on his official X (previously Twitter) deal with, Obi described the efficiency as “a mirrored image of the deep-rooted challenges in our instructional system.”
He attributed the poor outcomes to long-term neglect and underfunding in Nigeria’s training sector.
“The most recent JAMB outcomes as soon as once more spotlight the implications of a long time of underinvestment in training, a sector that ought to be central to our nationwide improvement technique,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has clarified that the 2025 UTME efficiency is in keeping with historic patterns during the last 12 years.
Addressing journalists on Wednesday in Abuja, Oloyede mentioned roughly 1.5 million out of the 1.9 million candidates scored under 200, noting that this pattern is just not out of the bizarre.
“This isn’t peculiar to this 12 months. The efficiency statistics are in keeping with these of the final 12 years,” he acknowledged.
He additionally defined that whereas the general efficiency information has been launched, particular person outcomes are nonetheless below evaluation.
“Now we have not launched the person outcomes but, however we’ve printed the general statistics as a result of that a part of the method has been accomplished,” he mentioned.
“We’re at present reviewing the instances of some candidates with borderline points to find out whether or not their outcomes ought to be launched or withheld. As soon as that’s concluded, the person outcomes might be launched.”
Commenting on the nationwide issues, Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, argued that the excessive failure price within the 2025 UTME displays the effectiveness of the federal government’s anti-malpractice initiatives.
Talking on Channels Tv’s Morning Transient on Tuesday, Alausa mentioned the drop in efficiency exhibits that JAMB’s safety measures are working.
“That’s an enormous concern, and it’s a mirrored image of exams being performed the correct means,” the minister famous.
“JAMB conducts its examination utilizing a computer-based testing system. They’ve carried out sturdy safety measures, and consequently, fraud or dishonest has been fully eradicated. Sadly, we can’t say the identical for WAEC and NECO,” he acknowledged.
From the whole of 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the examination, the info confirmed {that a} important majority scored under 200.
