60% Fail PLE Mock Exams In Mbarara
Sep 22, 2003
ABOUT 62.2% of primary seven pupils in government-aided schools in Mbarara district have failed mock examinations for 2003.
By Ebenezer Bifubyeka
ABOUT 62.2% of primary seven pupils in government-aided schools in Mbarara district have failed mock examinations for 2003.
The district secretary for education, Emmanuel Turyamureeba, said out of 17,532 candidates who sat for mock exams, only 370 (2.11%) passed in division one, while 62.2% were in “grade U.â€
Turyamureeba was addressing about 200 headmasters at Kamukuzi district headquarters on Thursday.
He said the performance was ridiculous because private schools which have no textbooks like government-aided schools were performing better.
“Some ‘private schools’ have no trained teachers and the few who are there are not paid but they are performing better than you. Your schools have UNICEF tanks and school facilities grant buildings yet you fail,†he said.
Turyamureeba said some pupils took 30 minutes trying to understand a question because of difficulty to understand English which was the same problem with their teachers.
“Recently, a headmaster came to the office of the vice-chairperson and wrote in the visitors’ book that, I’ve come here to sick permission to open a school! Was that office a clinic?†Turyamureeba said.
The district inspector of schools, Kellen Niwamanya said Mathematics was the best subject followed by English, Science and Social Studies.
Niwamanya said most of the pupils failed because they had bad handwriting which could not be read by examiners.
He urged headteachers to improve the pupils’ efforts within the remaining two months before the Primary leaving examinations start.
Kazo parents and Ibanda Town primary schools were the best in the district with 56 and 38 pupils in the first grade respectively.
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ABOUT 62.2% of primary seven pupils in government-aided schools in Mbarara district have failed mock examinations for 2003.
The district secretary for education, Emmanuel Turyamureeba, said out of 17,532 candidates who sat for mock exams, only 370 (2.11%) passed in division one, while 62.2% were in “grade U.â€
Turyamureeba was addressing about 200 headmasters at Kamukuzi district headquarters on Thursday.
He said the performance was ridiculous because private schools which have no textbooks like government-aided schools were performing better.
“Some ‘private schools’ have no trained teachers and the few who are there are not paid but they are performing better than you. Your schools have UNICEF tanks and school facilities grant buildings yet you fail,†he said.
Turyamureeba said some pupils took 30 minutes trying to understand a question because of difficulty to understand English which was the same problem with their teachers.
“Recently, a headmaster came to the office of the vice-chairperson and wrote in the visitors’ book that, I’ve come here to sick permission to open a school! Was that office a clinic?†Turyamureeba said.
The district inspector of schools, Kellen Niwamanya said Mathematics was the best subject followed by English, Science and Social Studies.
Niwamanya said most of the pupils failed because they had bad handwriting which could not be read by examiners.
He urged headteachers to improve the pupils’ efforts within the remaining two months before the Primary leaving examinations start.
Kazo parents and Ibanda Town primary schools were the best in the district with 56 and 38 pupils in the first grade respectively.
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