The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has admitted that there were errors that affected the performance of candidates during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, held across different centres in the country.
The Registrar of the board, Ishaq Oloyede made the admission during a media briefing in Abuja, while also announcing that over 379,997 candidates in the just concluded 2025 exercise would retake the examination.
This followed widespread complaints of technical glitches, unusually low scores, and alleged irregularities in the questions and the answers during the exercise. However, in a post on its X handle, the examination body said the technical glitch affected 157 centres out of the 887 centres.
Recall that, JAMB had released a statistical breakdown of the 2025 UTME, where it revealed that over 1.5 million of the 1.95 million candidates who took the examination scored below 200.