UACE: Girls shine, exams of 404 candidates withheld
Feb 26, 2013
UNEB, together with the education ministry released the 2012 A-Level exams results on Tuesday in Kampala.
KAMPALA - The Uganda National Examinations Board, together with the education ministry released the 2012 A-Level exams results Tuesday morning at Statistics House in Kampala.
Generally, there is a reported increase in last year’s performance than the previous year 2011. There is also an indication of a higher percentage of candidates who qualify for a certificate.
A 69.4% qualification rate in the recently released results places the statistic ahead of the previous outcome, which stood at 64.0%.
Qualification for tertiary institution is said to be better than the year before.
The results show that female candidates out-competed their male counterparts in the two-principal passes achievement.
The females have given off a lower failure rate, which inspires the possibility that soon – in the near future – the competition with the males will stiffen, and could see the girls out-class the boys.
The arts subjects were done much better than the sciences. History, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Islam/Divinity and Geography were the best-done arts subjects.
On the other end of the academic rope, core sciences including Mathematics, were poorly performed compared to 2011.
A total of 404 candidates have had their results withheld for further investigations over suspected examination malpractices.
The affected Schools are Nagalama Islamic Institute, Lugogo Hall under KCCA, Valley College Bushenyi, Sharing Youth Centre, Gomba Global College,Lord’s Meade Secondary Njeru and Agro-links Academy among others.
Kampala emerged the best district with 3,114 candidates with four principal passes, Wakiso came second with 2, 902, Mukono third with 913 and Masaka with 477.
A total of 715 candidates failed.
Detailed coverage of the results with best candidates’ profiles, best Schools and district rankings in Wednesday New Vision.