The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has disclosed that over 1.5 million of candidates scored less than 200 in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, out of 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the exam.
The examination body made this known in a comprehensive statistical breakdown of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results.
It, however, announced that 4756 candidates scored above 320, while 7658 candidates scored between 300 and 319.
In the statement accompanying the data, the examination body further said that 40,247 underage candidates were permitted to demonstrate their exceptional abilities.
JAMB added that only 467 of these candidates representing 1.16% achieved scores that meet the threshold for exceptional ability as defined for the UTME, with their performance in the subsequent three stages still pending.
