Assessment body, the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb), has released results for the 2022 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) at an event held in the capital Kampala on Friday, March 03, 2023.
A total of 97,889 candidates registered for the examination from 1, 969 Centres. Of the registered candidates, 42% were females while 58% were males. A total of 40,713 female candidates registered for the 2022 UACE examinations compared to 41,190 in 2020.
UNEB chairperson Prof Mary Okwakol noted that the performance of the candidates has improved especially at the upper level of candidates obtaining three Principal passes. At the other levels, the pass rates are comparable.
“An analysis of the overall performance in the examination shows that a very high percentage of candidates (99.2%) qualified for the award of the UACE, just as was in 2020,” added Odongo.
PERFORMANCE BASED ON GENDER
Odongo further observed that female entries for the Sciences and Mathematics have remained lower than those of the males, consistent with the fact that overall female entry is lower than that of the males.
Candidature was 29.6% for Mathematics, 6.1%% for Physics, 16.5% for Chemistry; and 15.9%% for Biology. “It should be noted that these percentages were lower (except for Physics) in the 2020 examination, and before. In other words, female entries for Mathematics and the Sciences are gradually increasing,” he added.
In terms of percentages, female candidates performed better than their male cunterparts at the principal level pass (A-E) in Arts (Humanities), Mathematic and Physics. Male candidates were better in Agriculture, Chemistry, Biology, Art and General Paper.
BIOLOGY PERFORMANCE DROPS
Performance in Biology has again dropped below the 2020 level where it had risen. Examiners have attributed this to candidates having problems in questions on Genetics, Ecology and applications of biological concepts to the environment, Classification and inability to deal with simple mathematical computations in Biology.
Odongo also explained the failure rates in other subjects.
“Candidates at lower levels demonstrated adequate to basic mastery of the subject matter Their performance was undermined by misunderstanding of questions, inability to describe, explain interpret offer logical arguments/ illustrations specific examples to qualify their answers,” he said. “Better answers were seen in parts of questions that are more direct. Some candidates rely on mnemonics in order to recall facts.”
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