By Editorial,
More candidates attained a C grade and above in the 2025 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) examinations than in 2024, signaling improved application of knowledge and skills to real-life situations.
Arts and Humanities subjects registered the strongest performance, while Science subjects recorded a notable decline in failure rates. Despite the overall improvement, examiners reported that many learners continue to struggle with interpreting scenario-based questions.
While releasing the results, Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Executive Director Dan N. Odongo described the outcome as broadly successful. UNEB reported that 428,628 candidates representing 99.69 per cent of those who sat qualified for the UCE certificate.
Odongo clarified that candidates who met the required competency levels will have “Result One” indicated on their transcripts and certificates. He emphasized that this designation does not correspond to the former “Grade One” under the previous grading system.
Analysis of the results further shows a sharp reduction in the proportion of candidates who did not qualify for the UCE certificate, falling from 1.9 per cent in 2024 to just 0.31 per cent in 2025.
A total of 432,163, “Four Hundred thirty Five thousand one hundred sixty three” candidates from 3,975 examination centres registered for the 2025 UCE examinations, up from 359,417 “Three Hundred Fifty Nine Thousand four hundred seventeen” in 2024, an increase of 72,746 candidates, representing 20.2 per cent growth. Commenting on the results, Education Minister Janet Kataha Museveni described the 2025 UCE outcomes as encouraging, noting that higher percentages of learners reached the defined competency levels compared to the 2024 cohort. END