UCE 2022: PWDs post poor performance

This follows the poor performance posted by children with special needs in last year’s Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exam results.

According to the results, the largest number of children with hearing disabilities (deaf) passed in division four.

Out of the 120 deaf students who sat for the exams, only five passed in division one, six in division two, and 18 in division three while the majority (74) passed in division four and 21 failed.

Looking at other categories of special needs children, 46 blind children sat for the exams, and out of these, two got division one.

Better performance was registered among children with low vision, out of the 154 students, 41 passed in division one and 39 in division four.

Odongo has meanwhile revealed says the board will next year start examining sign language Special needs children did not perform any differently in last year’s PLE results.

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, has since summoned Education Minister, Janet Museveni to present a detailed statement on their poor performance.

 Despite the poor performance of PWDs, UNEB reported a reduction in the failure rate after the candidates who sat for the 2022 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) posted better performance than their colleagues who sat for the same examinations in 2020.

Odongo noted that there is an improvement in performance of candidates this year given an increase in the number of candidates who passed in division one and others consecutively.

He said there has been an improvement in performance in the large entry subjects except in Christian Religious Education, Biology and Commerce.

Mathematics showed better performance at the Distinction level, but declined overall. English language improved at credit and overall Pass levels but declined at the distinction level.

Performance in Biology has continued to decline as seen in the last few years.

“Worth noting is that, performance in Physics and Chemistry has improved, although the overall pass levels are still low. Over 40% of the candidates have not passed the two subjects,” Odong said.