The 2017 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results for candidates who sat for the examinations last November are out.
Education Minister Janet Museveni this morning while releasing the results said that out of the 628,606 pupils who turned up for the exams, 571,252 (90.9%) passed the exams while 57,354 failed the exams.
UNEB Secretary General Daniel Odongo says a total of 57,198 pupils passed Division One, 293,977 in Division Two, while 128,573 passed in Third Division. 91,504 passed in Fourth Division.
57,354 candidates were placed in U- Grade, which is a category for those that failed completely.
Cheaters nabbed, poor performing districts named
Results of 2,559 candidates have been withheld pending completion of investigations of exam malpractice.
The worst performing districts were also named. Kween, Bukwo, Tororo, Kayunga, Mbale, Mayuge, Kamuli, Buvuma, Budaka and Bududa were listed as having had the worst performing candidates.
UPE Candidates shine
Universal Primary Education Candidates continued to improve their performance. UNEB announced while releasing the results.
“About three quarters of the registered children are from UPE schools and failure rate is higher in UPE schools at 11% compared to 4% in non UPE schools.We have gradually been reducing the number of students who register for exams and don’t sit for them. In 2017, we registered 2.4%, the lowest ever recorded. There was significant improvement in SST and Science. There was a decline in distinction for both English and Mathematics.”
Examiners also indicated that there was improvement on the layout of how candidates have been presenting answers. The handwriting has improved, UNEB said.
Performance in 2017 was better than 2016 except for the Division One Level.