The Uganda National Examinations Board, UNEB has today 23rd January released the results from the Primary Leaving Exams, PLE from 2024. These showed that males performed better than the females.
This is despite the females being more than the boys in the total number of candidates. A total of 797,444 candidates sat for the 2024 PLE Exams. Of these 378,709 (47.5%) were boys while 418,750 (52.5%) were girls.
According to UNEB, girls being more than boys has been the trend in the exams for the past couple of years.
Meanwhile, the performance of 2024 was better than that of 2023. Candidates from the just released results were also slightly higher than those of 2023.
Meanwhile, despite girls being many, boys performed better overall and recorded higher numbers in Division One and also had lower failure percentages. 45,203 males were in division one while 39,098 were girls of the candidates who passed in division one.
2024 had 84,301 candidates in Division One compared to 86,582 from 2023. Additionally, 397, 589 candidates were in Grade Two, 165,284 in Three with 75,556 in 4. 64,251 were ungraded and will have to repeat P.7
"A total of 797,444 candidates from 14,883 centres registered for #PLE2024, up from 749,347 in 2023. Of these, 524,025 (65.7%) were UPE beneficiaries from 11,451 centres, while 273,419 (34.3%) were non-UPE from 3,432 centres," UNEB ED Daniel Odongo.#Boomupdates#PLE2024 pic.twitter.com/PY2wGnnDc9
— 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐔𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 (@BoomUganda) January 23, 2025
