By Our Reporter
NATIONAL
The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Executive Director has today 6th September, 2023 officially released Examination Time Tables for the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE), Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE), and the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) examinations.
According to Dan Nokrach Odongo, this year’s national examinations will commence on Friday, October 13th, with the briefing of UCE candidates saying the first paper will be Geography on October 16, 2023. The UCE Examination will run until November 17, 2023
The second series of the examinations is the PLE which will be conducted from November 7th – 9th, 2023, starting with the briefing of the candidates. The 3rd and final set of the examinations, UACE, will be conducted from November 10 – December 1, 2023.
Odongo says Heads of Centers are advised to ensure that every candidate receives a copy of the timetable, and that the same is also displayed on the school notice boards. Centre heads can access the timetables from their portals.
“Hard copies will also be provided along with the other stationery, which will be distributed from Monday September 11th, 2023,” Odongo says.
WHAT ODONGO SAYS
Candidates and all those concerned MUST take special note of the sections on Directions to candidates, and Caution against Malpractice in or around the Examination Room.
These have clearly spelled out the instructions that candidates must follow and cases of examination malpractice that can lead to disqualification, cancellation of results or arrest of a candidate.
The candidates must further note that involvement in malpractice in one paper shall lead to the cancellation of the entire results of the examination.
A total of one million, two hundred twenty-four thousand, three hundred seventy-one (1,224,371) candidates have registered for all three levels of the final examinations, from 20,921 centers. Of the total candidature, 51% are females, while 49% are males.
