{"id":65326,"date":"2025-05-05T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65326"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:48:15","slug":"jamb-scores-dip-as-less-than-one-percent-cross-300-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/05\/jamb-scores-dip-as-less-than-one-percent-cross-300-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMB Scores Dip as Less Than One Percent Cross 300 Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the 2025 UTME results, revealing a sharp performance dip as only 0.63 percent of nearly two million candidates scored above 300.<\/p>\n<p>In data shared via its official X handle on Monday, JAMB disclosed that most candidates\u201450.29 percent\u2014scored between 160 and 199, while a mere 0.24 percent crossed 320. Only 0.10 percent scored below 100.<\/p>\n<p>The board also revealed that 40,247 underage candidates took part in the exam, with just 1.16 percent achieving standout scores.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 97 candidates were penalised for misconduct, and 2,157 remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Over 71,000 candidates were absent. Results for those with biometric issues will be released after a rescheduled sitting.<\/p>\n<p>A full breakdown is expected at a press briefing later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the 2025 UTME results, revealing a sharp performance dip as only 0.63 percent of nearly two million candidates scored above 300. In data shared via its official X handle on Monday, JAMB disclosed that most candidates\u201450.29 percent\u2014scored between 160 and 199, while a mere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65328,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65326\/revisions\/65328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}