By Editorial
Female candidates have beat their male counterparts in the 2022 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) examinations, a trend that has been observed for the last four consecutive years.
According to the executive director of Uganda National Examinations Board – (Uneb), Daniel Odongo, out of the 96,557 candidates who sat for the examinations, 40,219 were females and 56,023 were males.
According to Odongo, female candidates proportionally performed better than their male counterparts despite their candidature being fewer than that of their counterparts.
Uneb results released this morning showed that the percentage of passes at the upper level of 3 and 2 principal passes are higher while the percentage of passes at the lower level and failure rate among girls are lower than boys.
Uneb has withheld results of 113 candidates who sat for the 2022 UACE.
Releasing the results at the office of the president, Mr. Odongo noted that examination malpractice at this level remains low as compared to UCE and PLE.
According to Mr. Odongo, the reported cases of examination irregularities were mainly of external assistance in Mathematics, Biology and Computer Studies.
In accordance with section 4 (3) of the Uneb Act 2021, the board will accord a fair hearing to the victims before passing final verdict, Mr Odongo assured.END.