Kampala, Uganda: Umoja Standard learnt that there will be a briefing on the performance of students today Wednesday 8, 2023 in the presence of Mrs. Museveni and education ministry top officials.
The briefing, a precursor to the release of the results, is expected to take place at State House, Kampala.
The briefing will be done by Dan Odongo, the UNEB’s executive secretary, and the board’s chairperson, Prof. Mary Okwakol.
After the briefing, an announcement of the official date for the release of the results, and the related modalities will be done.
This will be the second set of the national exams to be released after PLE results that were released last week.
A total of 349,445 candidates registered to sit the examination from 3703 Examination Centres.
Of these, 175,923 (50.3%) of the candidates are males, while 173,522 (49.7%) are females.
A total of 114,200 (32.7%) of the candidates were funded under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) Programme, while 235,245 (77.3%) candidates are Non-USE.
Fifty-one (50) of the candidates wrote their examination from Luzira Prison
Five hundred nineteen (519) of the candidates were Special Needs Education (SNE) candidates