As of Friday May 31st morning, a total of one million, one seventy two thousand, one hundred and fourteen candidates (1,172,114) had registered of the PLE, UCE- New Curriculum, and the UACE examinations.
According to UNEB, the number of candidates registered for PLE so far exceeds the total candidature of last year. Seven hundred fifty four, and seventy six (754,076) candidates for PLE, have so far registered, as compared to seven hundred forty nine, three hundred forty seven (749,347) that registered last year. The registered candidates are from 95.2% of the PLE Centres.
UNEB in a statement urged all Heads of Centres who have not yet dully registered all their candidates to do so before midnight tonight. The registration fees for this normal window of registration are 34,000/. for PLE, 164,000/ for UCE and 186,00 for UACE.
“For candidates who may miss registering during this time, a period has been set for late registration, which will attract a surcharge. Heads of Centres of government-aided schools are advised to ensure that they register their learners during this period because the government will not pay the surcharges,” UNEB said.
For the UCE old Curriculum, over 3,000 candidates have so far registered for the Transitional Examination (UCE-TE).
“Once again, the Board would like to emphasise that this is a one-off opportunity given to anyone who would like to be assessed under the old curriculum and qualifies for the same,” UNEB said in a statement issued on Friday.
This examination targets the following categories of people: Those who sat UCE in 2023 or earlier and would like to improve their grades; b. Those who registered for UCE in 2023 or earlier, but did not sit; c. Those whose 2023 UCE results have been cancelled d. Those who failed to register for UCE in 2023. These must have sat PLE in 2018 or earlier, e. Adult candidates who are 20 years old and above and did not sit for PLE.
The adult candidates, however, require special permission from the Board before they can register. They must also provide proof of age.
Under this category, the government will pay for the registration fees of candidates who sat for PLE in 2018. and have registered under a Universal Second, Education (USE) government school.
The others can register from any school/ Examination Centre around them, or one of the UNEB Examination Halls spread in different parts of the country. The registration fee is one hundred and sixty-Four Thousand (164,(00/=).
The Board would like to advise those responsible for uploading the candidates’ bio-data to carefully verify the accuracy of the data submitted by the candidates before uploading. You are advised to look out for spelling and order of names, date of birth as per the UNEB prescribed format of (Date/Month/ Year), gender, institutional choices and ensure that correct and high resolution photograph is attached for each of the candidates.
