Today, Thursday, March 7, the 2023 UACE results were made public.
First Lady Janet Museveni, the Minister of Education and Sports, will formally release the results, according to the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB).
The results of the 2023 UACE were announced by Prof. Celestino Obua, the UNEB chairperson, who stated: “The Board notes that entries for sciences at UCE continue to be lower than for humanities.” It is gratifying, though, that the numbers are going up.
“Honourable Minister, the performance of the candidates has improved, especially at the upper level of candidates obtaining 3 principal passes. We note that once again. Female candidates have performed better, proportionally, than male candidates at all levels and have shown a lower failure rate.
“Even at individual subject levels, they have shown a better performance. However, we continue to see a low percentage of female candidates at this level offering mathematics and science combinations. The paradox, Honourable Minister, is that the girls who offer STEM subjects perform well, if not better than the boys. Why then do the girls shy away from these subjects?”
UNEB Executive Director Dan Odongo said that a total of 110,553 candidates registered for the 2023 UACE examination from 2,102 centers, compared to 97,890 candidates from 1,969 centers in 2022. This is an increase of 12,663 candidates (12.9%).
Of these, 47,226 (42.7%) were females and 63,339 (57.3%) were males. Candidates who appeared for the examination were 109,488, compared to 96,557 in 2022, an increase of 12,931 candidates (13.4%).
Of these, 46,860 (42.8%) were females and 62,628 (57.2%) were males. At this level, according to the 2023 UACE results, the number of female candidates has consistently been much lower than that of the males.
