How to Raise Your JAMB Score by 100 Marks in Three Months

Let's start with the scoreboard. In the 2025 UTME, after a resit for candidates hit by a technical problem, JAMB reported 1,931,467 results. Only 565,988 of them scored 200 or more. That's 29.3%, which means about 7 in every 10 candidates scored below 200.

And 300? JAMB's first release in May 2025, before the resit, counted just 8,414 candidates at 300 or more. By our sum, that's under half of one percent.

So if you're sitting on a mock score around 180, you're not alone, and you're not stuck. Thousands of students move up every year. The ones who do usually change how they study, not just how long.

Things are getting better, slowly

There's good news hidden in the numbers. Leadership newspaper's figures show that in 2021 only 13% of candidates scored 200 or more. JAMB's final 2025 figure, after the resit, is 29.3%. By our sum, that's more than double in four years.

Why? One data analyst gave Leadership a simple answer.

"The CBT system is no longer new to candidates." Isaac Moji, data analyst, speaking to Leadership, 2026

In other words, students are getting smarter about the format. You can too.

Remember what JAMB is

JAMB has described the UTME as a ranking exam. It's not mainly checking whether you finished the textbook. It's sorting thousands of candidates by how well they answer under a clock. So your job isn't just to know things. It's to answer correctly and fast.

Three habits that move scores

1. Make past questions your main practice

Reading notes feels productive, but research says it's one of the weakest ways to study. A big 2013 review of study methods rated testing yourself as one of the two most useful techniques. Past questions are exactly that: testing yourself on the real thing.

2. Track the kind of mistake, not just the score

After every practice set, look at what you got wrong and ask why. Was it a topic you don't understand? A careless slip? Running out of time? You'll usually find the same few types of question catching you again and again. Fix those first.

3. Practise like it's exam day

Study guides describe the UTME as 180 questions in two hours. That's about 40 seconds a question. So practise with a timer, on a screen if you can. Speed is a skill, and you only build it under a clock.

A simple three-month plan

• Month 1: find your gaps. Do a timed mock in each of your four subjects. List the topics and question types you keep missing. Start fixing the biggest gaps straight away.
• Month 2: fix them. Do timed practice every day on your weak topics. Check every wrong answer the same day, not next week.
• Month 3: rehearse the real thing. Do full timed mocks at least twice a week. After each one, look at your mistakes before you look at your score.

Will this guarantee 100 extra marks? No plan can promise that. But this is how students turn a 180 into something much better.

Don't forget the basics

Get your registration right, sleep well in the last weeks, and know how you'll check your result. JAMB's spokesperson explained it in 2026.

"To view their results, candidates should send UTMERESULT to 55019 or 66019." Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB, April 2026

If one subject keeps pulling your score down, get help early. On Scholarleveling, you can join live classes with a teacher on any phone and practise with quizzes before the big day.

Read next: past questions vs textbooks for WAEC and JAMB, or the JAMB 2027 registration checklist.