O-Level candidates set for final exams

PIC: Crane High School, Kitintale students doing a mechanical practical exam on Monday. UCE exams will official begin this Friday with briefing of candidates. (Tony Rujuta)

KAMPALA - Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) candidates across the country who offer disciplines of home management, food and nutrition and textile science practicals are finalizing their practical exams ahead of the official start of the O-Level exams.

According to the timetable set by exams body UNEB, the UCE exams will officially start on Friday October 14 with briefing of candidates and will end on November 23 with technical drawing and music.

Normally, UNEB arranges a special timetable for some practical exams including language oral exams and music done before the official start of the national exams.

These will be submitted before Friday.

On Monday, candidates will begin with Physics practicals in the morning then fine art and shorthand in the afternoon.

UNEB publicist Hamis Kaheeru, said the ongoing practical exams are done by a few candidates and therefore are done before the general timetable begins.

"These practical subjects take long duration of sessions and are registered by a few candidates and schools, but they are part of the final examinations. That is why we give them special provision of the timetable," he said.

Crane High School, Kitintale students doing hands-on tailoring

At Kyambogo College School, 220 candidates are set to do their final exams, of which 41 offer home management and 14 food and nutrition.

Nakhaima George, the director of studies at the school, said their candidates are ready to sit for the forthcoming exams and therefore those offering home management were busy cooking different kinds of food, baking, laying beds and knitting as part of their exam.

Meanwhile the UNEB timetable shows that the A-Level (UACE) examinations will start on Friday November 11 with briefing of candidates.

And then three days later, students will start with European History and with indigenous languages on December 6.

But before the A-Level exams, primary school candidates will sit their PLE on November 2 (Mathematics and Social Studies) and November 3 (Science and English).

 A candidate does a hands-on carpentry, joinery and metal works practical

 This one is doing honey harvesting, an agriculture practical subject

 Chemistry practical in session at Crane High School, Kitintale