The Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni on Friday morning released the 2019 Uganda Certificate of Examinations (UCE) results from the Office of the President Auditorium in Kampala.
UNEB also confirmed that it has withheld results of 1,262 candidates over suspected malpractice.
This was revealed by Prof Mary Akwakol, the UNEB Chairman as she handed over the results to Education and Sports minister Janet Museveni has on Friday morning for release to the public.
“There are reduced malpractice cases from 1825 in 2018 to 1262 cases.”
She said these cases are a result of teachers providing assistance to the students during practicals and students copying from one another particularly in the science subjects
UNEB Executive Secretary Dan Odong, also revealed that failure rate dropped to 7.8 percent, from 12.8 percent in the previous year.
“Overall performance improved with 92.2% passing compared to 87.2% in the previous years while failure rate dropped significantly from 12.8% to 7.8%,” he said
He said that 92.2 of the candidates who sat for the exams are able to proceed to the next level of education which is Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) or A-Level.
UNEB has also revealed that of the 337,720 students who sat the UCE 2019 exams, 144,256 were USE beneficiaries. They make up 42.7% of the number of students who sat the exams.
While a total of 337,720 candidates registered for the UCE examinations in 2019, only 333,060 sat for the examinations.
UNEB has reported a massive improvement in Biology, Geography, Agriculture, Chemistry and Art.
Janet Museveni, Education Minister has said that the teaching of the English language has degenerated to encouraging learners to cram content that consists of very complicated words.
“This needs to stop as it is not helping our students,” she said.
The number of candidates registered for the 2019 examination increased by 0.7% much as the day of the increase was lower than that of 2018 demonstrating the UCE cycle completed.
Overall performance in the UCE 2019 examinations was better than that of the previous year. It improved from 87.2 percent in 2018 to 92.2 percent.
410 candidates with special needs registered for the examinations, compared to 357 the previous year.
“All these candidates were given the required assistance in regards to their disability and an extra 45 minutes”
A total of 337,697 candidates registered to sit for the 2019 Uganda Certificate of Examinations (UCE) from 3,531 centers across the country.
