UCE exams: Mukono Wakiso dominate; Eastern Uganda continues to perform poorly

Mukono , Wakiso and Kampala districts emerged the best performing districts in the Uganda Certificate of Examinations results released by UNEB on Wednesday.

The results indicated that Mukono had 2958 candidates who passed in division one which indicates a 24.7 percent of the total number of candidates that sat exams in the district.

Wakiso with 7000 students (21.2%) and Kampala with 3895(19.3%) were the second and third best performing districts respectively in the UCE results released by UNEB.

Eastern Uganda districts continued to perform poorly in UCE as it was during the Primary Leaving Examinations.

Bukwo had the highest percentage of failures at 28.6,Butaleja 28.3.Bundibugyo 28.7,Kween,Kapchorwa,Buliisa,Bulambuli,Paliisa and Sironko being among the poor performers.

Speaking at the function to release the results at the Office of Prime Minister, UNEB Executive Secretary Dan Odongo said that science subject teachers have continuously failed to integrate the teaching theory and practicals.

“In very many schools, practicals are not done by candidates until towards examinations whereas candidates go into the practical examinations ill equipped,”Odongo told journalists.

He also noted that failure to comprehend the English language is another big problem leading to failure of candidates in the UCE examinations.

Odongo revealed that performance in English language declined and this was witnessed in poor spellings, grammar, punctuation and tenses.

“As has been reported in the previous year, teachers are making candidates cram stories from books,”he noted.

Boys continue to perform better

The UCE results released on Wednesday have indicated that boys have continued to perform better than girls according to UNEB.

The results indicated that 11.4 % of the boys passed in division one compared to 8.4% for their female counterparts.

Boys were at 18.6% compared to girls who composed 15.4% of the total number of candidates who passed in division two.

At subject level, girls performed better in English language whereas their male candidates performed better in almost all the other subjects at O-level.

Of the 326212 candidates that sat in 2017 for UCE,15148 (46.5%) were beneficiaries of the Universal Secondary Education .

A candidate is presumed to have passed if they get between divisions one and four.