JAMB Orders 2025 UTME Review Following Widespread Complaints and Public Outcry!
The 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) is being reviewed immediately by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in response to a flurry of public complaints about technical issues, missing questions, and abnormally low results.
The board acknowledged what it called an “unusual volume of complaints” after the UTME results were released last Friday in a statement released by its public communication advisor, Fabian Benjamin.
It claimed that the change had led it to expedite its yearly post-examination review procedure, which normally occurs several months following the exercise.
“The odd allegations coming from a few states in the federation are of special concern to us. To find and address any possible technical problems, we are now carefully reviewing these concerns,” the statement said.
The representative clarified that the three phases of the UTME cycle—registration, examination, and result release—are included in the annual review.
He went on to say that JAMB will not think twice about putting “appropriate remedial measures” in place if any flaws are discovered in the system.
“We have brought in several experts to help with this process, such as vice chancellors from different institutions, members of the Computer Professionals Association of Nigeria, chief external examiners who are in charge of tertiary institutions, and the Educational Assessment and Research Network in Africa.”
“We will promptly implement appropriate remedial measures, as we do in the case of the examinations themselves, if it is determined that there were indeed glitches,” the exam board stated.
Candidates Threaten to File a Lawsuit
Thousands of candidates are reportedly getting ready to sue the board in a class-action lawsuit over the purported irregularities, which coincides with JAMB’s intervention.
Many report that during the test, they experienced inconsistent question displays and technological issues.
After JAMB disclosed in its widely shared statistical data that more than 1.5 million of the 1.9 million applicants who took the UTME this year received scores below 200 out of 400, the debate reached a breaking point.
This figure sparked widespread alarm and a social media frenzy.
On many platforms, the hashtag #ThisIsNotMyResult has been trending, with parents and candidates expressing surprise at the low results.
Registrar and Minister Respond
Speaking last week on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, Education Minister Tunji Alausa credited the widespread failure to the effectiveness of JAMB’s anti-malpractice technology.
In support of the findings, he claimed that the board’s computer-based testing methodology “had made cheating nearly impossible” and ought to be applied to other national exams like WAEC and NECO.
Is-haq Oloyede, the JAMB Registrar, also denied assertions that the 2025 results were extraordinary.
He noted that the same performance patterns have been noted in prior years.
Despite the registrar’s defense, the board is nevertheless under increasing pressure to ensure that the marking and result collation systems are transparent and equitable.
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