Art, Literature, History best done at S.6

                    Art, Literature, History best done at S.6

Uneb Executive Secretary Dan Odongo. FILE PHOTO

kedi abdu rahiman The 2019 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) examinations results released yesterday indicate humanities as top three best performed subjects. Fine Art tops the list registering 99.7 per cent of the candidates with at least a principal pass followed by Literature in English at 97.8 per cent and History at 96.4 per cent. Physics and Christian Religious Education follow in fourth and fifth position at 96.1 and 93. 1 per cent respectively. A statement released by Uganda NationalExaminations Board (Uneb) further indicates significant improvement in performance in Mathematics, Physics, Agriculture and Biology compared to the previous year. Mathematics had 81.8 per cent of the students with a principal pass in 2019 compared to 75.1 in 2018, Physics 96.1 per cent from 93.7 per cent, Agriculture at 92.2 per cent from 80 per cent and Biology at 84.4 per cent from 78.8 per cent. “Female candidates performed better than their male counterparts at the principal level pass in Arts (Humanities), Mathematics, Physics and Agriculture. Male candidates were better in Chemistry, Biology, Art and General Paper.” There was, however, a major decline in Economics, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Chemistry. The statement shows that 75.5 per cent of candidates who sat Economics in 2019 got at least a principal pass compared to 79.4 per cent in 2018.

In Summary Uneb Executive Secretary Dan Odongo said the performance has been affected by candidates’ failure to interpret questions and lack of exposure to practical work in the case of science subjects

8"> KAMPALA – Education and Sports minister Janet Museveni has on Friday morning released the 2019 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Examinations (UACE) results from the Office of the President Auditorium in Kampala. Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has reported a slight improvement in last year’s UACE examinations but noted a drop in a number of students in the sciences. The list is based, primarily on the number of candidates with 20 points out of 20 points in each school.