THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will commence the review of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results tomorrow, Thursday, May 15.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Executive Officer of Educare, Alex Onyia, who will participate in the review, JAMB stated that the exercise was part of efforts to address public concerns about the recently released results.
Onyia has been at the forefront demanding for accountability and transparency of results from the JAMB following the mass failure recorded in this year’s examination.
He had also called for a proper review of the results, adding that some students reported glitches while writing the exams, while others said the results didn’t reflect their efforts.
Reacting to this and other public outcry, JAMB stated that it had invited representatives from various educational and professional bodies to participate in the review process.
The invitees members include the All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, Chief External Examiners, the Computer Professionals Association of Nigeria (CPN), vice chancellors from various universities, rectors of polytechnics, provosts of colleges of education, and other relevant stakeholders.
The JAMB expressed its commitment to transparency in the review process.
Recall that, on Monday, May 12, JAMB said it had launched an investigation into numerous complaints regarding the recently released 2025 UTME results.
This followed candidates’ poor performance and protests that greeted the release of the results, as 78.5 per cent of the candidates scored below 200, a benchmark commonly used for admission into competitive programmes in Nigerian federal universities.
According to JAMB, of the 1,955,069 registered candidates, 1,534,654 scored below 200, while the results of 39,834 candidates were withheld for various reasons.
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In a letter dated May 12, 2025, Onyia and a Law firm, John Nwobodo & Associates, expressed concerns over what they described as the “worst failure rate” in JAMB’s history, with nearly 80 per cent of candidates scoring below 200.
They demanded full disclosure of examination questions and corresponding answers. They also disputed the results, alleging that they do not reflect the actual performance of their candidates.
They suggested that a software glitch might have caused a mismatch between questions and answers during grading.
They further argued that JAMB’s system, which only displays aggregate scores without corresponding answers, lacked transparency and leaves room for doubt and mistrust. Onyia and the firm demanded a comprehensive review of the grading process to ensure that the correct answers matched the correct questions.
