UNEB TO RELEASE UCE RESULTS THIS THURSDAY
By Fred Siminyu
The long awaited Uganda National Examinations Board 2023 Uganda Certificate of Education Examination (UCE) results are set to be released on Thursday, February 15, 2024, according to a confidential source within the Ministry of Education and Sports that preferred to remain anonymous.
The release is expected to take place at 11 am, hosted at State House Nakasero.
A high-level meeting between the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) and the Minister of Education is scheduled to precede the public release, and shed light on the students’ performance.
This marks the second installment of national examination results to be unveiled byUNEB, coming after the Primary Leaving Examinations.
Mr. Dan Odongo, the Executive Director of Uneb, will provide comprehensive insights into the number of candidates who participated in the examination compared to the registered candidates. The release will also encompass a detailed breakdown of the overall performance and performance categorized by gender.
Subsequent after the release, parents, candidates, and other stakeholders will be able to promptly access the results through Short Message Services (SMS) on their mobile devicesby simply sending a text with the full Index Number of the candidate to 6600.
All districts countrywide have already disseminated the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results, to last year candidates where according to UNEB at least out of the 88,269 (candidates who sat the 2023 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) were ungraded, representing 10.4 percent of 749,347 candidates who sat.
“Division U (Ungraded) is awarded to candidates who have failed to reach the minimum level of performance that can be awarded at least a Division 4 They are not eligible for admission to the Senior 1 class. It should be noted that the number of candidates in Division U is quite high, at 88,269 (10.4%) and should raise concern so that they do not just add to the statistics of school drop-outs,” Mr Odongo said.
According to UNEB, a higher proportion of the 2023 candidates passed in Division 3 and above level.
“Overall, the performance of candidates is comparable to that of 2022,”Mr Odongo added.
The education minister, Janet MuseveniI said she had instructed the Permanent Secretary of her Ministry to work out something to ensure that such pupils are given an opportunity to repeat Primary Seven in public schools.
“From Executive Director’s report, I observe that a number of candidates did not qualify for the PLE certificates (Ungraded). The government is going to ensure that this trend is reversed. I have instructed the Permanent Secretary of Education Ministry to work out something to ensure that such pupils are given an opportunity to repeat Primary Seven in public schools so that we can support them,” she said.
A total of 247,728 pupils, who sat the PLE exams between November 8 and 9 in 14,442 examination centres are from private schools while the rest are from Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools.
For the second consecutive year, girls are the majority amounting to 52 percent (391,558 pupils) of the candidates who sat for the exams while their male counterparts are 357,789 (48 percent).
A total of 2,436 Special Needs Education learners and 79 inmates (13 female and 66 male) from Upper Prison School Luzira also
sat for the exams.
During last year’s exams, girls outperformed boys in the English subject while the latter performed well in the remaining three including Mathematics, Integrated Science and Social Studies.
Mr Odongo warned a section of heads of Centres and the public against fraudsters who claimed to have
