{"id":13675,"date":"2025-05-06T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=13675"},"modified":"2025-05-06T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:30:57","slug":"jamb-over-1-5m-candidates-score-less-than-200-in-2025-utme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/jamb-over-1-5m-candidates-score-less-than-200-in-2025-utme\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMB: Over 1.5m candidates score less than 200 in 2025 UTME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released a comprehensive statistical breakdown of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The breakdown offers a full picture of the performances by Nigerian candidates in the examination conducted across the country.<br><br>According to JAMB, out of 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, over 1.5 million of them scored less than 200 in the exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It, however, announced that 4756 candidates scored above 320, 7658 candidates scored between 300 and 319.<br><br>In the statement accompanying the data, the Board said that 40,247 underage candidates were permitted to demonstrate their exceptional abilities.<br><br>JAMB further stated that only 467 of these candidates (1.16%) achieved scores that meet the threshold for exceptional ability as defined for the UTME, with their performance in the subsequent three stages still pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released a comprehensive statistical breakdown of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results. The breakdown offers a full picture of the performances by Nigerian candidates in the examination conducted across the country. According to JAMB, out of 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Official_JAMB_logo.png?fit=325%2C306&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13676,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions\/13676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}