Over 39,800 withheld as JAMB releases 2025 UTME results

The results of 39,834 candidates of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have been withheld.

On Friday, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) released the results of the over 1.9 million applicants who participated in the 2025 UTME.

JAMB said a total of 2,030,862 candidates registered for the exam conducted across 882 CBT centres.

A total of 1,957,000 were accredited, 71,705 were absent, and the fingerprints of 2,157 were rejected by the machines as invalid.

Some 41,027 registered under JAMB’s window for exceptionally brilliant but underage candidates, and 40,260 sat for the examination.

The results for 1,911,551 candidates have been released as of May 9, leaving the number of available results at 1,951,811.

JAMB said a total of 39,834 results remain unreleased for various reasons.

Of these, 1,426 results are under scrutiny and processing.

A total of 96 results were withheld for malpractice, a decrease from 123 in 2024, while further results remain under investigation.

At JAMB’s last policy meeting, stakeholders resolved to implement a prescribed 16-year minimum age for entry into tertiary institutions and to raise it to 18 years from 2025.

Tunji Alausa, the education minister, upheld this entry age but halted the implementation of the proposal to raise it to 18 years from 2025.

JAMB said gifted candidates must demonstrate their abilities through the UTME, SSCE, Post-UTME, and a gifted candidate test.

UNDERAGE CANDIDATES RESULT ANALYSIS
CATEGORY	CANDIDATES	%
320 – ABOVE	467	(Including 1 finger fraud) 1.16
300 – 319	667	1.66
250 – 299	4665	11.59
200 – 249	12357	30.69
160 – 199	15978	39.69
140 – 159	5528	13.73
120 – 139	554	1.38
100 – 119	30	0.07
BELOW 100	15	0.04
TOTAL	40261

A total of 41,027 candidates registered under this underage category.

Only 467 of the 41,027 registered underage candidates attained the minimum required UTME score.

JAMB said the 466 successful candidates have been notified of their achievement.

The board said those who did not meet the threshold have been notified of their inability to meet the prescribed minimum score.

Earlier, a preliminary statistical analysis of 2025 UTME results showed that 78.49 per cent of candidates scored below 200.

To check the 2025 UTME results, candidates are to send by text message “UTMERESULT” as one word to “55019” or “66019” using the same phone number they had used to register during the registration process.