By Pathfinder Reporter
Wednesday May 28, 2025
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has ruled out the possibility of candidates using their earlier Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination scores in place of results from the recent resit.
JAMB’s Public Communication Adviser, Fabian Benjamin, told The PUNCH on Monday that the initial results have been voided, and only the resit scores will be recognized.
“You can’t have two results. One must be withdrawn – that means the old result has been withdrawn,” Benjamin said.
Some parents of candidates who participated in the resit had inundated The PUNCH with inquiries on Monday noting that their wards/children scored higher in the initial exams than the resit.
“My daughter scored over 200 in the initial exam and scored less than 200 in the resit. Can she use the result of the initial exam which is better than this last one?” one of the parents inquired.
The resit followed widespread outcry over technical and human errors that marred the original examination, prompting the board to conduct another exam for 379,000 affected candidates in Lagos and Southeast states.
The fresh results showed marked improvement as about 200,000 more candidates crossed the 200 mark, raising the total number of those who scored 200 and above to 565,988 — representing 29.3 percent of the 1.9 million candidates who sat the exam.
In comparison, only 439,961 (24 percent) crossed the same mark in 2024, while 355,689 (23.36 percent did so in 2023.
JAMB noted that although the results reflect an overall improvement, the majority — 1,365,479 candidates, or 70.7 percent — still scored below 200.
This marks a slight improvement from the initial result released on May 9, 2025, where over 1.5 million candidates scored below 200.
The board stated that the 2025 exercise saw a record participation of 1,931,467 candidates — the highest since the Computer-Based Test format was introduced in 2013.
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