Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has commenced with the process of marking both the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) and Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) scripts in the coordinated Centers, and results for the first set are expected to be released during the 3rd week of January 2024.
This development was confirmed by Jennifer Kalule Musamba, the Principal Public Relations Officer during the weekly security brief at the Police Headquarters in Naguru on November 27, 2023.
Kalule said that the scripts have been sorted and dispatched to 13 centers for PLE marking and 20 centers are for marking UCE and UACE examinations. She added that a total of 14,000 examiners have been invited for marking.
“The scripts have been sorted for transfer to the various marking centers. We have a total of 33 marking centers, of which 13 will be used for marking PLE scripts, while 20 are for marking UCE and UACE examinations. About six thousand (6,000) examiners have been invited for marking at PLE level, while eight thousand (8,000) have been contracted to mark the UCE examinations. We expect to release the first set of results, which is PLE, during the 3rd week of January 2024,” Kalule said.
She appreciated all the partners who support UNEB in the field of conducting examinations including the contracted professionals, security agencies, the judiciary that have attended to the cases of malpractice, the media that has prioritized examination issues, and members of the public who have constantly given whistle blowers alerts regarding malpractice.
Kalule highlighted the challenge notably the circulation of misinformation on social media regarding purported error in the UCE physics paper. UNEB refuted the claims asserting that all papers passed through a rigorous validity test and no error was experienced.
“We would like once again to assure the nation that there was no error in any of the UNEB Examination papers, at any of the levels. All the test items for the Board’s examination papers passed through a rigorous validity test and as such NO SUCH ERROR was experienced,” Kalule noted.
However, Kalule assured the public that they are working with police to investigate and establish the source of the misleading information and once the culprits are found, they will be brought to book.
According to UNEB, a total of one million two hundred twenty-four thousand three hundred seventy-one (1,224,371) learners registered for all the three levels of the final examinations of 2023, from 20,921 centers.
