The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that only the results from the recently conducted rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be considered valid.
JAMB’s Public Communication Adviser, Fabian Benjamin, stated that the earlier results had been invalidated, and only the resit results would be recognised.
“You cannot have two results. One must be withdrawn, that means the old result has been withdrawn,” he said.
The clarification comes amid inquiries from concerned parents who noted that some candidates had better scores in the initial examination than in the resit.
“My daughter scored over 200 in the initial examination and less than 200 in the resit. Can she use the initial result, which is better than this last one?” a parent asked.
JAMB released the results of the rest on Sunday. The supplementary examination was held following widespread complaints of technical and human errors during the original UTME, which affected 379,000 candidates in Lagos and the Southeast.
The new results showed a significant improvement, with approximately 200,000 more candidates scoring 200 or above. In total, 565,988 candidates, representing 29.3 per cent of the 1.9 million who sat the examination, scored at least 200.
In comparison, 439,961 candidates (24 per cent) reached that mark in 2024, while 355,689 (23.36 per cent) did so in 2023.
Despite the improvement, a majority, 1,365,479 candidates, or 70.7 per cent, still scored below 200. This marks slight progress from the initial results released on May 9 2025, where over 1.5 million candidates scored below that threshold.
JAMB reported that the 2025 UTME recorded a total of 1,931,467 candidates — the highest since the introduction of the computer-based Test format in 2013.
Some candidates have taken to social media to share their improved scores following the resit. Chief Executive Officer of Educare, Alex Onyia, shared several testimonies on X, including one which read: “From 155 to 341. This brings me so much joy. I have so many of this type of result on my DM right now.”
A breakdown of the results shows that 117,373 candidates (6.08 per cent) scored 250 and above in 2025, an increase from 77,070 (4.18 per cent) in 2024 and 56,736 (3.73 per cent) in 2023.
Also, 8,401 candidates (0.46 per cent) scored 300 and above this year, the highest in recent times, compared to 5,318 (0.35 per cent) in 2023 and 724 (0.06 per cent) in 2021.
JAMB maintained that the new results offer a fairer reflection of candidates’ performance after addressing the earlier lapses.
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