JAMB releases more 2026 UTME scores, see how to check

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of additional results for the ongoing 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The new results cover candidates who sat for the exam on the second and third days of testing.

In a statement released on Sunday evening, JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, urged affected candidates to check their results using their registered phone numbers.

The statement read: “The results of candidates who sat the examination on Friday, 17 April and Saturday, 18 April 2026 have now been released. A total of 1,264,940 results from these two days are available for candidates to check/view

“To view their results, candidates should send UTMERESULT to 55019 or 66019 using the phone (SIM)number they used to register for the 2026 UTME..”

Earlier, the Board had made public 632,752 results for candidates who wrote the examination on Thursday, 16 April 2026, bringing the cumulative number of released results to 1,897,692.

A total of about 2.2 million candidates registered for this year’s UTME.