NEWS- Rukungiri’s Immaculate Heart Girls School has again posted a stellar performance in the just released 2023 Uganda Advanced of Education Examinations.
Immaculate Heart Girls School got 2 students Orishaba Peron and Niwahereza Ritah scoring 20 points, 13 candidates got 19 points, 26 candidates got 18 points, 23 got 17 points and 29 gnarred 16 points.
Jubilant Immaculate Heart Girls School Head teacher, Sr Gladys Kachope narrated to this reporter that it was God’s grace, teachers’ dedication and Students’ hard work that made the school achieve such a success.
According to UNEB, at least 73 percent of students who sat their Uganda Advanced Certificate of Examinations (UACE) qualify for university, reflecting a steady performance improvement as compared to 2022 and 2021.
It should be remembered that UNEB on Thursday, March 7th 2024 released examination results of 110,553 learners who registered for the November 13-December 1, 2023 UACE examinations across 2,102 centres in the country, posting an increase of 12,663 candidates in the previous year.
“Analysis of the overall candidates’ performance in the examination shows that a very high percentage of candidates (99.1%) qualified for the award of the UACE, just as was in 2022,” UNEB executive secretary Dan Odongo said. UNEB reports that “80, 643 of the 2023 candidates meet the minimum requirement of 2 principal level passes for admission to university, up from a figure of 67, 815 in 2022 examinations.”
“In cases where one principal and two subsidiary pass levels are considered for admission to other tertiary institutions, 90.7 per cent of the candidates will qualify. This is better as compared to 2022 with 89.3 per cent,” UNEB executive secretary Dan Odongo said.
Examiners also revealed improvement in the quality of candidates’ work, with higher mean scores in many subject areas where performance has been reported to have improved, according to Odongo.
“Notable has been Biology, where performance has been rather poor in the past years. The core science subjects continue to show lower than desired principal performance levels. The factors responsible for this state of affairs include teaching theoretically, with candidates lacking in practical skills to perform experiments, record and interpret their results. Questions based on practical experience posed problems as a result,” he explained.
The board has called for urgent attention to subjects relating to ICT, noting that “most schools are very ill-equipped in terms of computers and printers required for the practical examination which greatly impacts the acquisition of the skills and quality of work they present during the examination.”
In 2022, sixty seven thousand eight hundred fifteen- 67,815 (70.3%) learners qualified for university admission as compared to 69.8% in 2020.
