JAMB has released the 2025 UTME statistics, showing a significant gap in performance among candidates.
Out of 1,955,069 candidates who took the examination, 420,415 scored above 200, leaving over 1.5 million candidates below the 200 mark, the traditional threshold for university admission in many Nigerian institutions.
Further breakdown of the results shows that:
Only 4,756 candidates scored above 320,
7,658 candidates scored between 300 and 319.
In the statement accompanying the data, JAMB said “40,247 underage candidates were permitted to demonstrate their exceptional abilities. However, only 467 of these candidates (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.”
