Uneb Releases Timetables for 1.3 Million Candidates Sitting PLE, UCE, UACE & Transitional Exams This Year

Assessment body Uneb has released 2024 timetables for the Four Examinations (4Es) – Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE), the UCE transitional exams, and the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE).

This year’s 4Es will be conducted under the theme: “embracing security and holistic assessment of learners in a dynamic environment,” according to Uneb executive secretary and director Dan Odongo.

The Uneb boss has explained that the theme is “a call on all stakeholders to seriously consider the security of the examinations and preserve its sacredness,” adding that “This is the only way for us to be sure that the learners who have gone through this process have the grades and certificates that reflect their true ability.”

This will be first time Uneb will be conducting exams for candidates under the new Lower Secondary Curriculum (NLSC) and the last time it will administer exams under the old curriculum. As The Pearl Times has previously reported, this year’s old curriculum papers are referred to as transitional exams. (See Details Here and There).

“Unlike previously when we had three sets of examinations, UNEB will this time round conduct Four Examinations (4Es), the UCE Examination based on the NLSC and the UCE (transitional examination), based on the old curriculum,” explained Odongo.

“The transitional examination is aimed at giving an opportunity to those that needed to repeat or those that missed the examination in 2023 for various reasons. This is a one-off examination under the old curriculum.”

2024 CANDIDATURE

Up to 1,320,400 candidates have registered for the Four Examinations or 4Es, which is an increase of 7.8 per cent from last year’s candidature of 1,224,371.

Of the total candidates who have registered to sit the four exams, 51.1 per cent are females while 48.9 per cent are males.

Majority of the candidates – up to 698,808 or 53 per cent of the total candidature – are under the  government’s Universal Education Programs, Universal Primary Education (PLE) and Universal Secondary Education (USE). The rest, 621,592 candidates or 47 per cent, are privately sponsored.

Up to 379,620 candidates have registered to sit UCE. This includes 369,477 for the NLSC and 10,143 for the transitional examination.

Even at A-level, Uneb says it has “recorded a very significant increase in candidature.” Up to 142,017 candidates have registered for UACE exams compared to last year’s candidature of 110,579 – translating in a 28.4 per cent increment.

At PLE level, 798,763 candidates registered for the end of primary examinations compared to 749,371 in 2023, translating in a 6.6 per cent increment.

More Special Needs Education (SNE) learners have also registered as candidates this year compared to 2023. Up to 4,498 SNE candidates will sit the four examinations compared to last year’s 3,698 candidates.

The breakdown for SNE candidates is as follows: 3,295 for PLE, 760 for UCE – NLSC, 38  for Transitional UCE – Old curriculum, and 405 for UACE.

Uganda Prisons, that is Luzira Upper and Mbarara Main, have registered 108 Candidates – 107  Male and 01 Female – candidates  for PLE, 39 for UCE – 38 Male and 01 Female.

They are Ugandan Sign Language with a total of 72 pioneer candidates, 8 of whom are hearing learners  nad Physical Education with a total candidature of 15,000 registered in 1,341 centers.”

A total of 4, 490 candidates have registered for foreign languages with the breakdown as follows:  French (1,335), Arabic (1,993), Latin (627), German (209), and Chinese (326).

UNEB TIMETABLES 2024

For O-level, the timetable for the NLSC has 36 subjects compared to the 46 subjects of the old curriculum.

Both UCE and NLSC examinations will begin on Friday, October 11, 2024, with briefing, but the NLSC will end on Friday, November 11, 2024 while the transitional UCE papers will be concluded on Friday, November 15, 2024.

PLE exams will begin with briefing on Monday, November 04 and end on Thursday, November 07, 2024.

UACE exams will begin with briefing on Friday, November 08, 2024, and end on Friday, December 06, 2024.

You can see top best performing schools in PLE, UCE and UACE in previous Uneb sitting Here, There and Over There.

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