The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has launched an urgent review of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) after facing a flood of complaints from candidates and parents.
The review comes in response to growing concerns about technical glitches, missing questions, and surprisingly low scores in this year’s examination.
According to a statement by JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, the Board received what it described as an “unusual volume of complaints” following the release of the 2025 UTME results last Friday.
This led JAMB to begin its annual post-exam review earlier than usual.
“We are particularly concerned about the unusual complaints originating from a few states within the federation. We are currently scrutinising these complaints in detail to identify and rectify any potential technical issues,” the statement read.
JAMB said the issues seem to be concentrated in certain states, and it’s now closely examining these complaints to identify any technical faults. The review will cover all stages of the UTME process, including registration, the exam itself, and result processing.
To ensure a thorough investigation, JAMB is working with external experts, including members of the Computer Professionals Association of Nigeria, Vice Chancellors, educational researchers, and other assessment professionals.
“To assist in this process, we have engaged a number of experts, including members from the Computer Professionals Association of Nigeria, Chief External Examiners, who are heads of tertiary institutions, the Educational Assessment and Research Network in Africa, measurement experts, and Vice Chancellors from various institutions.”
“If it is determined that there were indeed glitches, we will implement appropriate remedial measures promptly, as we do in the case of the examinations themselves,” the board stated.
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Students Threaten Legal Action Over JAMB 2025 UTME Issues
Meanwhile, many candidates are threatening legal action, claiming they experienced errors during the exam. These include frozen screens, wrong questions, and sudden system shutdowns.
Some students have joined forces to prepare a class-action lawsuit against JAMB, demanding accountability.
The controversy intensified after JAMB revealed that over 1.5 million of the 1.9 million candidates scored below 200 out of 400.
This sparked outrage across Nigeria, with the hashtag #ThisIsNotMyResult trending widely on social media. Many candidates insist their scores do not reflect their actual performance.
Government Officials Defend JAMB
In response to the backlash, Minister of Education Tunji Alausa spoke on national TV, defending the UTME results.
He said the low scores were likely due to JAMB’s stronger anti-malpractice systems, which made cheating extremely difficult.
He suggested similar technology should be adopted by other exam bodies like WAEC and NECO.
JAMB Registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, also rejected claims that the 2025 UTME results were unusually poor. He said previous years had shown similar trends and there was no evidence of system failure.
However, pressure continues to build on JAMB to prove that the exam process was fair and transparent. Many are calling for full disclosure of the marking system and result verification procedures, as frustration over the JAMB 2025 UTME Issues shows no sign of fading.
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