UNEB Commissions PLE and UACE Exams this Week

The 2023 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) and the Uganda Advanced Certificates of Education (UACE) Examination commence this week with the briefing of PLE candidates on Tuesday November 7th, and the briefing of UACE Candidates on Friday November 10th, 2023, respectively.

The Executive Director Uganda National Examinations Board UNEB, Dan Odongo said PLE candidates will write their papers on the 8th and 9th of November, while the UACE candidates will write their papers from November 13th – December 1st, 2023. 

Like the UCE examination, the PLE and UACE examinations are being conducted under the same theme; ‘Integrity and security in the management of examinations is a joint responsibility.’ This theme underscores the importance the Board attaches to integrity and security of the assessment process and the certificates issued thereof.

A total of 749,347 Candidates registered for the examination this year. They registered from  14,442 examination Centers, as compared to 14,153 centers last year. 69 of the registered candidates are inmates from Upper Prison School Luzira. Of these, 13 are females while 66 are males. 52% (391,558) of the total candidature are females while 48% (357,789) are males. 79% of examination centers are Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools, with a total of   501,619 candidates.

The Non-UPE centers are 21%, hosting 247, 728 candidates. In total, 70% of the candidates are funded under the Universal Primary Education (UPE) Program, while 30% are privately sponsored.  (249,041) are non–UPE candidates. "As a Board, we feel this is a vote of confidence in the government program Universal Education Program for which we would like to commend Ministry of Education and Sports, and the teachers in the UPE Schools."

110,569 candidates registered for the examination, as compared to 97,889 last year. This indicates a percentage increase of 11.4% ( 12,680) in candidature at this level.  22.3% of the candidate are Non-UPOLET, while 77.7 % are privately sponsored. In terms of gender, 43% ( 47,227) of  the candidates are females, while 57% ( 631,342) are males.  34 of the candidates are inmates from Upper Prison School Luzira, of whom 4 are females, while 30 are males. The candidates will write their examinations from  2,103  examination centers.