2024 PLE Results Released Indicating Increasing Registering Of Candidates

The minister of Education and sports who is also the First lady of Uganda Hon Janet Kataha Museveni has today released the 2024 primary Leaving Examinations(PLE) results indicating an increase in the general performance. 

A total of 797,444 candidates from 14.883 centres (schools) registered for PLE in 2024 compared to 749,347 in 2023.

 Of this number, 524,025 (65.7%) from 11,451 centres were Universal Primary Education (UPE) beneficiaries. 

While releasing the PLE 2024 results Hon Minister Janet Museveni noted that for the first time UNEB looked for the mastery of knowledge and skills

"We need to empower families  and mobilize them to know their roles in educating their children" Minister Museveni remarked.

Their are post education, technical and tertiary opportunities for those who passed the primary level but encouraged parents to strive and have their child at least to complete Ordinary Level as it plays a vital role in technical education.She added.

She Cautioned parents and school to take precautions in the schools against Mpox disease. First term will commence for senior one on 17th February 2025.

The UNEB executive Director noted that the overall Performance by Grades (Distinction, Credit and Pass) The performance of candidates in the four subjects is compared over the two-year period of 2024 and 2023 .

The performance is indicated at Distinction 2, Credit 6 and Pass 8 levels.

In 2024, analysis by gender shows that 378,709 (47.5%) boys were registered compared to 418,750 (52.5%) girls, indicating that more girls than boys completed the Primary Education cycle. This has been the trend in recent years.

A higher proportion of the 2024 candidates passed in Division 2 and above level. Overall, the performance of candidates is better than that of 2023. A higher proportion of the candidates passed (91.8%) compared to 2023 (88.0%).

"A worrying development however, has been noticed in a few schools that are registering perfectly normal pupils to be recognized as special needs candidates. They are hiding under the category of Others; pupils that suffer from health conditions such as Asthma, Epilepsy and Sickle Cell anaemia. The Board recognizes that such candidates may get attacks during the examination period. However, those candidates do not require any specialized assistance, except extra time of 45 minutes allowed to them".Said Odongo.