UGANDA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD STATEMENT OF RELEASE OF THE 2022 PRIMARY LEAVING EXAMINATION (PLE) RESULTS
Honourable Minister, we are pleased to present to you the Results of the 2022 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) which was conducted smoothly on 8th and 9th November 2022; under the theme: Integrity and Security in the Management of Examinations, the Health and Safety of the Learners is a joint Responsibility.
REGISTRATION OF 2022 PLE CANDIDATES
A total of 832,654 candidates from 14,691 centres (schools) registered for PLE in 2022 compared to 749,761 in 2020. Of this number, 583,768 (70.1%) from 11,306 centres were Universal Primary Education (UPE) beneficiaries, and 248,982 (29.9%) of the candidates were Non UPE. The proportion of candidates benefitting from the Universal Education programme has increased by 1.7 percent.
Table 1 below gives details of candidature and centres for the last five years.
Table PLE Registration Figures for the last five years
The Board registered 2,436 learners with Special Needs of various categories, including the blind, the deaf, the physically handicapped and the dyslexics, compared to 1,599 in 2020. This is an increase of 52.3%, the largest rate of increase ever.
Of these, 1,153 (47.3%) are females and 1,283 (52.7%) are males. A total of 1,609 of the candidates needed specialized assistance such as provision of braille, sign language interpreters, transcribers and physical support (amanuensis).
Results will be uploaded on the examination centre Portals. Each school can therefore download their results as soon as they are officially released.
However, the District, Municipal and City Inspectors of Schools may collect hard copies of the results from UNEB offices at Ntinda from Monday, 30th January, 2023. No copies of results are available as of now.
Parents, candidates and other interested parties may use the Short Message Services (SMS) on mobile networks which will post results of candidates on their mobile sets instantly.
INSTRUCTIONS TO GET PLE RESULTS BY SMS
• Go to Messages on the phone menu
• Type PLE
• Leave space
• Type the full index number of the candidate
• Send to 6600
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