The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that candidates who took part in the recent resit of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) cannot use their initial scores. Only the new resit results will be accepted.
JAMB’s Public Communication Adviser, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this clear in a statement on Monday.
Benjamin said, “You can’t have two results. One must be withdrawn – that means the old result has been withdrawn.”
This announcement has upset many parents whose children performed better in the first exam.
One concerned parent said, “My daughter scored over 200 in the initial exam and scored less than 200 in the resit. Can she use the result of the initial exam which is better than this last one?”
JAMB released the resit results on Sunday. The board had ordered the resit after technical and human errors affected the performance of 379,000 candidates, mostly in Lagos and some Southeast states.
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According to JAMB, the resit results showed better performance. About 200,000 more candidates scored 200 and above, bringing the total number of such candidates to 565,988. This represents 29.3% of the 1.9 million candidates who sat for the exam.
By comparison, only 24% scored above 200 in 2024, and 23.36% did so in 2023.
JAMB said the 2025 UTME had the highest number of candidates since it began using the Computer-Based Test format in 2013, with 1,931,467 students taking the exam.
Some resit candidates shared their joy on social media platform X. Education expert Alex Onyia shared several testimonies, including one that said, “From 155 to 341. This brings me so much joy. I have so many of this type of result on my DM right now.”
More students scored high marks in the 2025 exam. A total of 117,373 candidates scored 250 and above, up from 77,070 in 2024. Also, 8,401 candidates scored 300 and above, which is the highest in recent years.
JAMB said the new results offer a fairer picture of how well the candidates performed, after correcting the earlier problems that affected the exams