Today October 16, senior Four candidates from 3,863 Centres countrywide will sit for their first written UCE exam. The exam begins with Geography Paper One in the morning and Geography Paper II in the afternoon.
UCE exam begun on Friday last week with the briefing of all candidates by the heads of examination centres at all centres.
Data records at UNEB indicate that a total of 364,470 candidates registered for this year’s UCE examination. Of these, 184,014 (50.5%) are females, while 180,456 (49.5%) are males.
59 candidates are inmates in Luzira Upper Prison Centre, of whom 7 are females and 52 are males.
A total of 118,735 (32.5%) of the candidates are funded under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) Programme, while 245,734(70%) of the candidates are Non-USE. 777 of the UCE candidates are Special Needs Education (SNE) learners.
UNEB has deployed over 1,036 security officers, 1,113 scouts and 107,941 invigilators to aid in invigilation and supervision of the examination exercise.
Speaking to journalists at Uganda Media Centre on Friday, the UNEB Executive Director Dan Odongo Nokrach warned candidates against indiscipline and malpractice in UCE exams. Parents and teachers were also cautioned against fake examinations leakage.
“We would also like to strongly warn the public against fraudsters purporting to have the blueprint of the UNEB examination papers, and extorting huge sums of money from the unsuspecting members of the public. We hereby caution the public against dealing with such people.,” said UNEB ED, Dan Odongo.
