No fewer than 200,000 more candidates crossed the 200 average mark in the Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination after the recent resit organized by the Joint Administration and Administration and Matriculation Examination Board.

This followed the technical and human errors that marred the original exam.

In the UTME resit UTME results released, JAMB noted that the majority of candidates, over 1. 3 million, representing 70. 7 percent, out of 1. 9 million candidates scored below 200 after both the original exam and the resit.

In the original results released by JAMB on May 9, 2025, over 1. 5 million candidates out of 1. 9 million candidates who took the exam had scored below 200 out of the total 400 marks, rasing concerns in the country.

-9News Nigeria.