Girl Power: How Female Candidates Topped Male Counterparts in 2022 UACE Exams.

The 2022 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) results have revealed an interesting trend- female candidates outperformed their male counterparts making a significant achievement for the country’s education system which has historically been dominated by male students.

According to the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Executive Director, Dan Odongo during the release of the results at the Office of the President Conference Hall on Friday, He said in terms of percentages, female candidates performed better than their male cunterparts at the principal level pass (A-E) in Arts (Humanities), Mathematics and Physics whereas Male candidates were better in Agriculture, Chemistry, Biology, Art and General Paper.

“A total of 97,889 candidates registered for the examination from 1,969 Centres and 42% were females while 58% were males,” Mr. Odongo said.

“As was the case in the 2020 examination, female candidates
have proportionally (in terms of percentages) performed better than the males at all levels, and have shown a lower failure rate. Even at individual subject levels, they have shown a better performance,” he added.

He also noted that an analysis of the overall performance in the examination shows that a very high percentage of candidates (99.2%) qualified for the award of the UACE, just as it was in 2020.

Prof Mary Okwakol who is the UNEB chairperson said the performance of the candidates has improved especially at the upper level of candidates obtaining 3 Principal passes. At the other levels, the pass rates are comparable.

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However, Uneb has witheld results of 113 candidates who sat for the 2022 UACE and Mr Odongo noted that examination malpractice at this level "remains low as compared to UCE and PLE."

According to him, the reported cases of examination irregularities were mainly of external assistance in Mathematics, Biology and Computer Studies.