UNEB Releases UCE 2023 Results

The Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Kataha Museveni, has released the 2023 Ugabda Certificate of Education (UCE) results at State House Nakasero.

A total of 64,782 candidates (17.9%) that sat the 2023 UCE passed in the first grade or division one, this is compared to 46,667 (13.5%) in 2022.
According to the UNEB Executive Director Dr. Dan Odongo, performance in the 2023 exams is significantly better than that of 2022.
He said the failure rate has also dropped by 0.5%, this means that 329,939 (95.9%) of the learners who presented themselves for the 2023 exams can progress the post-UCE level.
He added that a total of 809 special needs education candidates (368 males and 441 females) registered for the exams compared with 721 in 2022, an increase of 12.2% over the last year.
These special needs education candidates included the blind, low vision, deaf, dyslexic, physically handicapped and others that did not require specific interventions except to be given extra time, and only 12 of these did not appear for the exam.
In 2023, Odongo said, 361,695 candidates (197,032 males and 182,663 females) appeared for the UCE exams compared to a total of 345,695 candidates in 2022, an increase of 16,000 (4.6%) candidates.
Odongo says that candidature increased by 15,008 (4.3%) candidates from 349,459 in 2022 to 364,469 in 2023 in 3,808 examination centres.
Of these candidates, 118,633 (32.5%) were the beneficiaries of the government universal secondary education (USE) programme.
Registered males were 180,471 (49.5%) and females were 183,998 (50.5%). That means there were 3,527 more females than males registered.
And in regard of the exam malpractice, UNEB chairperson Prof. Celestino Obua, said the hearing of cases of alleged exam malpractice for the 2023 PLE and UCE will begin on February 19, 2024.
Under Section 5 (2) of the UNEB Act, 2021, the exams board has the powers to withhold results of any candidate while conducting investigations on alleged, reported or proven malpractice against any school, examination centre or person.
UNEB can withhold the exam results until the investigations are concluded, according to the law.