The Uganda National Examination Board and the Ministry of Education and Sports have released the 2019 Primary Leaving Examination results.
UNEB Executive Secretary Dan. N. Odongo says a total of 695,804 candidates from 13,475 centres (schools) registered for PLE in 2019.
According to him, out of this number, 336,040 (48.3) were boys and 359,764 (51.7) girls, at least 617,150 (90.4%) passed the exams.
“A total of 89,332 have passed in the fourth division while 66,152 accounting for 9.6% are ungraded,” he said before adding that the performance of this year has improved significantly compared to the performance of pupils who sat in 2018.
Earlier, the board chairperson, Ms Mary Okwakol said candidates at PLE continue to increase every year.
“More girls have continued to remain in school at least upto completion of PLE.
Parents are partly responsible for ensuring that pupils remain in school. The result indicate that performance have improved and more pupils will join the post PLE level,” she said.
She added that 68.2% of the candidates who sat PLE were beneficiaries of Universal Primary Education (UPE), a government programme.
“We have continued to record increases in candidature every year. Once again, we registered more girls for this examination. We have observed this trend for the last five years. This could be because of increased sensitization of the need to keep the girl child in schools,” she said.
Ms Okwakol reiterated that PLE exams did not leak as had been reported by a section of the media.
