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On Tuesday, the 14th of May 2025, a high-level technical review session was convened at the t issions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) headquarters in Abuja.

The meeting, presided over by the esteemed Registrar, Professor Ishaq Olanrewaju Oloyede, was initiated in direct response to the mass outcry that followed the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results the previous Friday.

The objective of this gathering was to unravel the root causes behind the unexpectedly poor candidate performance and to establish clear mitigative measures to restore confidence in the integrity of the UTME assessment process.

The meeting began promptly at 10:00 a.m. and was attended by a distinguished of stakeholders. Present were heads of key directorates within JAMB, and Lead Systems Analysts. Also in attendance were delegates from the CBT Centre Regulatory Committee, representatives from the Educare Technical Team, and lead engineers from the consortium of software vendors responsible for the examination engine infrastructure.

Discussions commenced with a comprehensive analysis of the existing system architecture. The reviewed the software stack powering the CBT engine, paying particular attention to how examination content was delivered to candidates. An important distinction was made between server-streamed and locally cached delivery methods.

The discussion further investigated the existence and efficacy of randomization mechanisms for both questions and answer options. This scrutiny was aimed at determining whether shuffling protocols were uniformly enforced, how answer permutations were managed, and if consistency of correct answer mapping was maintained across candidates following randomization.

Attention then shifted to the scoring and marking logic. This line of inquiry included assessing the capability of the system to reconstruct question-and-answer mappings and evaluate response accuracy with complete transparency. It was critical to determine if each candidate’s raw responses were stored, retrievable, and auditable.

The team also rigorously examined JAMB’s quality assurance and testing frameworks. This involved reviewing the load testing procedures previously employed, ing the consistency of deployment builds across centres, and probing whether any last-minute hotfixes or patches were applied during or after the examination period. System logs, particularly incident and error records, were meticulously analyzed to identify any anomalies that could suggest failures in content delivery, timing accuracy, or candidate response capture.

Another focal point of the review was the potential for human factor influence. The sought clarity on whether any manual post-processing occurred during score collation or validation. The conversation concluded with an assessment of JAMB’s response readiness to Freedom of Information requests and its willingness to publish anonymized candidate-level result data as a measure to enhance public trust.

One of the most critical discoveries made during this session revolved around three major systemic changes introduced in the 2025 UTME. The first was a shift from the traditional count-based analysis to a more robust source-based analysis of results. In previous years, JAMB evaluated the integrity of examination sessions primarily by counting the number of responses submitted per session. If the majority of candidates in a session of 250 submitted a near-complete set of answers, the session was deemed valid. Any significant deviation led to disqualification of that centre’s results. However, in 2025, a more advanced model was adopted—one that focused on the actual source and logic of the answers provided, rather than just their quantity.

The second change involved full-scale shuffling of both questions and answer options. This ensured that even two candidates sitting in the same session would not receive identical permutations, thereby enhancing test security.

The third change was a series of systemic improvements aimed at optimizing performance and reducing lag during exam sessions. This was a major policy change that saw the best and highest Obtained UTME score in 15 years. And this would have amounted to a great achievement by JAMB!

While these improvements were technologically sound in theory, a major operational flaw was uncovered during the implementation phase. The system patch necessary to both shuffling and source-based validation had been fully deployed on the server cluster ing the KAD (Kaduna) zone, but it was not applied to the LAG (Lagos) cluster, which services centres in Lagos and the South-East. This omission persisted across all sessions until the 17th session, after which the error was discovered and corrected.

As a result, approximately 92 centres in the South-East and 65 centres in Lagos—totalling 157 centres—operated using outdated server logic that could not appropriately handle the new answer submission/marking structure. This affected an estimated 379,997 candidates, whose results were severely impacted due to system mismatches during answer validation.

To the scale and accuracy of this issue, JAMB collaborated with the Educare Technical Team, which had gathered response data directly from over 18,000 candidates. After deduplication and filtering, about 15,000 authentic records were analyzed. Of these, more than 14,000 originated from the regions serviced by the unpatched LAG servers, confirming the technical review's findings. Comparative analyses between JAMB’s internal audits and third-party system evaluations revealed significant overlap, reinforcing the conclusion that the affected centres were indeed operating under impaired conditions.

Affected candidates were advised to reprint their examination slips by Friday, 17th May 2025, to confirm their revised test schedules.

And we hereby report, that this incident was neither a system failure nor istrative manipulation, but an outright human error.


~Educare Tech Team,
As submitted by
Engr James Nnanyelugo

https://x.com/winexviv/status/1922722294998188172?t=6xWgBRN7wl9B6UkQ-bkznQ&s=19

Alex Onyia is the CEO at Educare. After noticing an anomaly in the performances of JAMB UTME candidates as against their last year performance, considering the greater effort was put in, he refused to accept the outcome, amplifying the hope of the shaken candidates.

He and his team embarked on a fact-finding mission, culminating in the discovery of the glitch that affected centres in Lagos and South Eastern Nigeria.

Alex is very ionate about educational advancement in the country. He has spearheaded various innovations targeted at placing Nigerian students competitively solid amongst their global peers.

A very deep research. It yielded results though. Jamb itted their fault.

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Dike-Si-Mba until 2031

Make sense, a retest should be done

Humn! The outcome of this 2025 UTME by JAMB is really disturbing.

Like play, like play,..God don blow Alex whistle

They can't stop the greatness of the igbo man no matter how hard they try

COMRADES, the part I like the most in this epistle is that...JAMB has destroyed the future of some of the candidates who can't speak out! But I saw the registrar of the body shedding crocodile tears on TV while putting on Lie Mohammed cap
Anytime Nigerian leaders want to do any shoddy deal they always put the blame on computer/ system glitch, just as in the case of INEC under the evil leadership of Manhood Yakubu in 2023

JAMB has itted technical glitches which had affected almost 380k candidates and the same number will resit the exam. This is still fair but the cut off point should be reduced to 150 while an in-depth investigation must be carried out in the spirit of fairness and justice

JAMB relied on Nigerians complaining and "moving on" but Alex Onyia hooked them.

Some people relied on the error to insult students

A very selfless, altruistic and highly commendable effort from the CEO of Educare. This is how to make impact

Lets stop fúckin around. The entire candidates of SE region scored below 200 then some lagosians. It's obvious what they wanted to do but we're too dumb to do it well

Hmmmmm2024:
Like play, like play,..God don blow Alex whistle

Examination software na im specialization....this has increased his visibility. 😂😂😂

Shebi someone was comparing JAMB with WAEC and implying the former was a better.

When people complained about the issues with JAMB they were insulted, mocked and ridiculed by lowlifers who don't know the value of working hard for anything in their miserable lives.
Any intelligent student will know his or her expected score in any exam.
Discrepancies between expected scores and official results will raise serious questions about the credibility and transparency of the examining body.

There's something terribly wrong with this country contraption....

Our educational system faces numerous challenges, but when the integrity of the examination body comes into question, it signals a far more serious issue. How can we determine whether past failures were due to systemic shortcomings or technical errors? And who will take responsibility for reviewing the exams from those years?

Good!

nadisms:
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how much?

Ronus... how market?
Useful idiots 😄

ReubenE:
Some people relied on the error to insult students

To insult SE rather

The person that scored 311 last year, is the person waiting to get 500 before seeking for ission. If you manage see 300 it's better to pursue ission at all cost.

This was not a glitch, it was intentional to discredit SE. But for the research and persistent calling out of Jamb by Alex Onyia and co, this would have been swept under the carpet.
Each time SE tops the chart, you'll see people from certain region say it's miracle center, now they've gone to the server to alter the results of hardworking children, trying to make to make it look like they were performing well in the past because of exam malpractice but aren't able to replicate same with CBT.
One thing is certain, who God has blessed NO man can curse.
Jamb registrar can continue shedding crocodile tears, We know.

hammedroyabat:
A very deep research. It yielded results though. Jamb itted their fault.

Indeed.
They didn't have a choice.
After lambasting the SE for playing victimhood.
Their yansh was opened.