UCE candidate gives birth& another dies in exams

By Our reporter

20^th Oct 2023

One candidate died and another gave birth during the ongoing Uganda Certificate of Education-UCE examinations.

According to the Uganda National Examination, Board-UNEB one of the candidates whose names have been withheld gave birth to a baby girl on day four of the examinations.

Jennifer Kalule, the UNEB spokesperson says that the student from a school around Kampala had already successfully completed her papers in the first three days but failed to attempt a paper on Thursday only to learn from the parents that at around 1:30 P.M., she experienced labor pains, she was rushed to a local hospital, where she gave birth to a healthy baby girl at 4:00 P.M.

Kalule adds that today Friday morning the candidate has shown up at the center to write her physics paper.

Kalule however hastened to add that UNEB have cautioned the school not to disclose the identity of the candidate at this moment since she is already passing through a lot. Even media shouldn’t try to publish her.

Candidates today sat for Physics Paper Three and IPS Art Still Life/Nature in the afternoon on their day five of the examination schedule.

This year, a total of 364,421 candidates have been officially registered for these exams, and the examination period is scheduled to extend until November 17, 2023.