Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has released the 2019 Primary Leaving Examination, showing overall that more pupils qualified to join post primary institutions than the previous year.
This year 617,150 candidates passed the PLE compared to 599,593 the previous year.
Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni received the PLE results at Kampala Parents School.
At last year’s 2018 PLE, male candidates performed better than their female counterparts with about 41,000 of them passing in division one compare to their female counterparts who only had 35,000 passing in division one.
The best-done subjects in 2018 were English followed by Social Studies. Science and Mathematics were the worst done subjects.
“I have noticed a marked drop in the performance in Science at the distinction level. From the brief I have received from UNEB, the problems that hinder good performance in Science still persist,” said Minister Janet Museveni.
“Teachers are teaching theoretically and have not adopted practical methods.
As I have said before, teachers must refocus their teaching to enable learners to be able to apply knowledge to their environment and other real life situations.”
She said that malpractice cases have gone down very significantly from the 2018 examination, due to the measures put in place by UNEB, the work of the security agencies, some parents and well-intentioned members of the public.
The Senior one ( S.1) Selection exercise will be conducted at UMA Show ground , Multi-purpose hall in Kampala from January 23rd to the 24th 2020.
Candidates in the 2019 Primary Leaving Examination managed more distinctions in English and Social Studies compared to science and mathematics, results released today have shown.
More candidates, than 2018, will be going to the next level of education, thanks to improvement in performance. Some 617,150 candidates passed the PLE compared to 599,593 the previous year.
The Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB shows that a total of 695,804 candidates from 13,475 centres (schools) registered for PLE in 2019. Of this number, 473,893 (68.2 per cent) were Universal Primary Education (UPE) beneficiaries, and 221,912 (31.8 per cent) of the candidates were Non-UPE.
The UNEB Secretary General Dan Odongo said at least 7.6 per cent of the pupils managed either a distinction 1 or 2 in English while 14 per cent managed the same in SST. For Mathematics and Science, while the general performance improved, fewer learners managed a distinction at that level.
Odongo said that “Overall pass level rose in Science although performance at the distinction level dropped sharply.”
