A student who was previously affected by the widespread technical issues that plagued the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has now recorded a remarkable score of 361 after being granted a resit by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
The student, identified as Nwadike Chukwubikem Chidiebere, had initially scored 153 in the first release of his UTME result. However, due to multiple complaints from students and evidence of system errors during the exam period, JAMB later admitted discrepancies in some of the scores and arranged a rescheduled exam for the affected candidates.
According to a post shared by education reform advocate Alex Onyia, Chidiebere took part in the resit and achieved a significantly improved score of 361 — an increase of over 200 points from his previous result.
This major leap has sparked reactions from across social media, with many expressing joy over his success while others used the opportunity to call for fairness and transparency in JAMB’s handling of the UTME process.
In his tweet, Alex Onyia wrote: “From 153 few weeks ago and now 361. Is God not awesome?”
Reactions have followed …
@francis_ranco said: “This is nice, but JAMB should sit this 2025 out, and allow the tertiary institutions to have full control of their intakes!”
@Kolintin12 said: “What about us that have issues but not reschedule? All this is not fair. People that did theirs on Saturday at 12pm had incomplete questions, but JAMB did nothing to fix it. Please help us sir, we are also among them.”
@victoryonyeka said: “I’ve been sending text messages to JAMB for my daughter’s result, but there has been no response.”
@YouthspireNG said: “Thank you for all you do, brother. During my JAMB and Post-UTME days, for two to three consecutive attempts, I scored the same mark repeatedly. Somehow, I knew something was wrong. That was years ago, and since then I have earned two international master’s degrees through scholarships.”
@Tobi_Godsent said: “I am very happy for the efforts Mr Alex has made to ensure that students had the opportunity to resit the JAMB exam. However, many others are still facing problems with resit scheduling. Also, how can we be sure this human error won’t happen again in future?”
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