The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that 17,025 candidates scored 300 and above in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), marking the highest figure recorded since the introduction of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) in 2013.
This represents 0.88 per cent of the total 1,931,467 candidates who sat for the exam. All results were released, with JAMB noting it as 100 per cent of participants.
A comparative report showed performance has significantly improved in recent years. Only 8,401 candidates (0.46 per cent) hit the 300-mark benchmark in 2024, while 5,318 (0.35 per cent) did so in 2023. In 2021, just 724 candidates scored 300 and above, and there were none in 2013 and 2014.
In the 250 and above range, 117,373 candidates (6.08 per cent) reached the score in 2025, up from 77,070 (4.18 per cent) in 2024 and 56,736 (3.73 per cent) in 2023.
Meanwhile, 565,988 candidates (29.3 per cent) scored 200 and above in 2025. In 2024, that figure was 439,961 (24 per cent), while in 2023, it stood at 355,689 (23.36 per cent).
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However, most candidates, 1,365,479, or 70.7 per cent, still scored below 200 this year, compared with 76 per cent in 2024 and 76.64 per cent in 2023.
The report pointed to fluctuating results over the years. In 2016, 568,847 candidates (34 per cent) scored 200 and above, while only 168,650 (13 per cent) did so in 2021.
According to JAMB, the rise in high scorers shows growing familiarity with the CBT format and continuous efforts to enhance the examination system.
JAMB also confirmed the release of results for the resit exam conducted after technical glitches affected 379,997 candidates across 157 centres in Lagos and the South-East.
On May 14, JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, said the issue arose from “faulty server updates” during the first three days of the UTME, which compromised response uploads. He assured that affected candidates would retake the test.