Over 749,000 candidates to sit for PLE

By Ben Musanje

07^th Nov 2023

The Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) has confirmed over 749,000 candidates expected to sit this year’s Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) across the country.

This comes after the comment of the central distribution of the PLE examination papers with the briefing slated tomorrow and later on both 8th and 9th of November candidates write their papers.

Jennifer Kalule Musamba, the UNEB Spokesperson while addressing the media at Police Headquarters in Naguru today noted that of the 749,347 candidates registered for PLE, 52 percent are females while 48 percent are males.

She says there are a total of 14,442 PLE examination centres and of these, 79 percent are UPE while 21 percent are non-UPE schools.

Kalule believes that there is vote of confidence to the government Universal Primary Education Program, hence applauding the teachers for a job well done in UPE schools.

Meanwhile, UNEB has registered no reported leakage or prior knowledge of any of the examination papers since the commencement of the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams though some of forms of malpractice, abetting malpractice via external assistance, attempts to destroy examination materials among others have been registered.

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