At least 64,251 candidates failed the 2024 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) whose results have been released by UNEB today.
These will not be eligible for admission to the Senior One class.
According to UNEB Executive Director, Dan Odongo, the 64,251 candidates represent 8.2% of the total number of candidates who sat for the exams.
The number is lower than the 88,269 who failed the same set of exams in 2023.
Performance
The results released on Thursday also indicated that a total of 722,730 candidates passed the 2024 Primary Leaving Examinations, a number higher than the 648,662 who passed the same exams the previous year.
According to UNEB, 84,301 representing 10.7% passed in division one, 397,589 in division two, 165,284 in division three, and 75,556 in division four.
A higher proportion of the 2024 candidates passed in Division 2 and above level, as overall, the performance of candidates is better than that of 2023.
A higher proportion of the candidates passed (91.8%) compared to 2023 (88.0%). There is a drop in the number of candidates obtaining Division 1.
The results also show that males performed better than the females and recorded a lower failure rate.
However, in terms of numbers, there are more girls in Division 2 and at the lower Divisions because of the fact that more candidates registered and sat the examination than the boys.
Prisons
The 2024 PLE results show that att the Luzira Upper Prison School, 51 candidates sat for the exams, four passed in Division 1, 36 obtained Division 2, 13 obtained Division 3, 6 obtained Division 4, and none were ungraded; while 12 did not sit for the examination.
At Mbarara Main Prison Inmates Primary School, 37 candidates were registered and of those, 4 obtained Division 1; 20 are in Division 2, 10 are in Division 3 while three are in Division 4. None were ungraded.
All candidates were male.
