{"id":197464,"date":"2025-05-05T18:29:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-utme-2025-1-5-million-candidates-scored-below-200-jamb\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T18:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:29:39","slug":"nigeria-utme-2025-1-5-million-candidates-scored-below-200-jamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-utme-2025-1-5-million-candidates-scored-below-200-jamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: UTME 2025 &#8211; 1.5 Million Candidates Scored Below 200 &#8211; JAMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Out of the 1.9 million available results, only 12,000 candidates or 0.63 per cent scored above 300.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">More than 1.5 million candidates representing about 78 per cent- who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scored below 200 out of the 400 obtainable points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamb.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board<\/a><\/strong> (JAMB), which conducts the annual Computer Based Test (CBT), disclosed this in a statistical analysis published on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">JAMB said candidates&#8217; results will be released&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505050454.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the 1.9 million available results, only 12,000 candidates or 0.63 per cent scored above 300. More than 1.5 million candidates representing about 78 per cent- who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scored below 200 out of the 400 obtainable points. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), which conducts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9085,9282,5118,257,4687,393,23898,254,9279],"class_list":["post-197464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-candidates","tag-jamb","tag-million","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-scored","tag-south-africa-today","tag-utme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}