PLE results out: Girls beat boys

The Uganda Examinations Board has released the 2019 Primary leaving examination showing an improvement in the performance with more than 69,000 pupils passing in division one. The board Executive Secretary Dan Odongo said at least 318,155 candidates scored a second division while a total of 140,420 passed in third division. Out of 695,804 candidates, 336,040 totaling to 48% were boys and 359,764 making 51.7% girls. “A total of 89,332 have passed in the fourth division while 66,152 accounting for 9.6% are ungraded,” he said before adding that the performance of this year has improved significantly compared to the performance of pupils who sat in 2018”. Mr. Odongo said. Meanwhile, the board is withholding results of 1,512 pupils over malpractice. Mr Odongo says although the examination was conducted smoothly, cases of malpractice in some schools were reported but a fair hearing will be accorded to the suspects. He said malpractice was manifested in form of external assistance given to candidates by third parties inside the examination rooms and because of this, about 61 people were arrested. In 2018, UNEB withheld results of 3,346 pupils over cheating and other forms of examination malpractice.

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