UACE 2023 Result Released With An Improvement In General Performance

The First Lady and the Minister of Education and Sports Hon.Janet Kataha Museveni has today released the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) 2023 at State House Nakaseri with a call to candidates to stay safe and healthy to pursue their further studies.

The performance of the candidates has improved especially at the upper level of candidates obtaining 3 Principal passes with the female candidates performing better, than the males at all levels and bave shown a lower failure rate.

The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Executive Director  prof. Dan Odongo noted that, although female candidates are fewer in number than the male candidates, proportionally, they performed better than their male Counterparts did and the percentage passes at the upper levels (3P and 2P) are higher, while percentage passes at the lower levels and failure rate among female candidates are lower than for the males as this has been the observed trend in the last three years.

Professor Celestino Obua UNEB Chairperson noted that entries for Sciences at UÁCE Continue to be lower than for Humanities although at individual subiect levels they have shown a better Pertornance. However, the continues to see a low percentage of the female Candidates at this level offering Mathematics and Science combinations adding that the paradox, is that the girls who offer the STEM subjects perform well than the boys.