UNEB Withholds 2,220 Results
Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has finally released the 2020 Primary Leaving Examination-PLE, at the statehouse Entebbe.
The UNEB Secretary-general Dan Odongo says more candidates obtained Division 1 than in 2019.
Odongo says female pupils performed better than males in English, while the males did well in the SST, Mathematics, and Science subjects.
He says in Social Studies with Religious Education (SST), performance improved at the distinction and credit levels while overall pass level remained the same.
Meanwhile, Odongo says 2,220 results were confiscated as a result of examination malpractice in under section 5 2b of the UNEB Act 2021.
”Schools whose results are being held will be notified through their district inspectors of schools, and all those whose results have been withheld will be accorded a fair hearing by the board’s examination security committee, the board will publish in the media schools and districts from which results have been cancelled”he said.
UNEB Withholds 2,220 Results
These he says will face prosecution according to the UNEB Act .
UNEB chairperson Prof Mary Okwakol has attributed the high number of registered candidates to primary 6 candidates fluking the examinations.
“Statistics on registration show that the number of registered candidates went up with a larger percentage than ever before. One of the findings is that in the districts of Kampala, Wakiso, and some urban centres elsewhere, a number of headteachers admitted that they registered Primary Six pupils, mostly girls, to sit the PLE exams,” she said
Results show that there was an overall improvement in English language performance at the minimum pass level.
A total of 749, 761 candidates from 14,300 centres registered for the 2020 PLE examinations compared to the 695,804 in 2019.
