The candidates reportedly missed the Mathematics papers during their Primary Leaving Examinations on November 8th, 2022 when they arrived one hour and fifteen minutes late contrary to the UNEB rules and regulations that indicate that PLE starts at exactly 9 am.
There
is panic among teachers, parents and candidates of St. Christine
Primary school in Kakumiro district after they have all failed to access the
Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE results for 2022 that were released on Friday.
The
Uganda National Examinations Board released the 2022 Primary Leaving
Examinations results today showing an improvement in performance overall compared to
the last two years’ performance.
Candidates,
parents, and other interested parties can use the Short Message Services (SMS)
on mobile telecom networks to check for the results. This can be done by typing
PLE Followed by a space, the candidate's index number, and send to 6600.
However,
for the P.7 Candidates of St, Christine Primary school, efforts by parents,
teachers and the candidates to access the results have proved futile since the
release of the exams.
This
has caused tension and panic, among the candidates and their parents fearing
that UNEB could have withheld their results.
The
candidates earlier missed the Mathematics papers during their PLE on November 8th, 2022 when they arrived one hour and
fifteen minutes late contrary to the UNEB rules and regulations that indicate
that PLE starts at exactly 9 am.
The
affected candidates had registered at Mpasana primary school UNEB center in
Mpasana town council.
It
later emerged that the school authorities failed to transport the candidates to
the UNEB center in time. The candidates walked for 15 kilometers to the UNEB
center to write the exams but couldn’t make it on time.
They
were, however, allowed to write the remaining papers.
UNEB instituted a team to
investigate the circumstances, under which the candidates missed the
mathematics paper.
The
investigations put the blame squarely on the school administration prompting
the examination body and the Ministry of Education and Sports to agree to
administer a special mathematics paper for the candidates not to affect their
education cycle.
UNEB
set November 30th as the date for the candidates to write the special paper at
Kyakuterekera Primary school, which is about 4km from St. Christine primary
school which is also under Mpasaana primary school UNEB center.
Doreen
Karungi, one of the candidates, says she tried checking for her results with
details availed by UNEB, but she has since failed. “I tried, my father too tried
severally to access the results in vain,” said Karungi. This
situation has puzzled Karungi together with her parents.
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Andrew
Mugisa, another candidate says he is worried that UNEB could have withheld
their results since all the candidates who sat for the exam under Mpasana
center have not yet accessed their results including those in the government-aided
school.
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in: “Na eye bi…//
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out:…bitahikireyo bizam bitu.”//
Sylvia
Atuhaire, another candidate explains that she severally tried to access the
results using her index number and other details availed by UNEB in vain.
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in: “hati nku hura…//
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out:… ndi mu second.”//
Pascal
Asiimwe, the headteacher St. Christine Primary school told Uganda Radio Network
in a telephone interview on Friday evening that he too tried to access the results
of the candidates in vain fearing something wrong must be happening with the
results. He however calls on the candidates and parents to be calm.
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in: “The center chairperson…//
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out:…me any acknowledgment.”//
Teopista
Namayanja, the headteacher Mpasana Primary school, the PLE UNEB center where the
candidates sat for their exams too told URN in a telephone interview that she tried to access the
results of both St,Christine and Mpasaana primary schools in vain saying she is
also stranded with nothing to do.
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in: “I cannot access…//
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out:…to access them.”//
Mary
Kyofuna, the Kakumiro District Inspector of schools says she too has failed to
access the results of all candidates who sat under Mpasaana Primary school UNEB
center.
She
says when she contacted UNEB, she was told to be patient by UNEB officials who say that the problem could be attributed to slow network connectivity. She
says out of the 4,334 candidates who wrote the exams in the district, by press
time she had accessed results for only 2,000 candidates.
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in: “They have not…//
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out:…give it time.”//
Deogratius
Ndahare, a parent says that he is currently disturbed after he severally tried
to check the results for his son in vain. He wants the district Education department to come up with
a clear statement.
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in: “Omuzadde wo mwana…//
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out:…agende mu secondary.”//
Juddy
Tindimuyeba, another parent wants the Education authorities to do all it takes
to have the PLE results for their children accessed immediately.
Emmanuel
Mpirirwe, the chairperson of the Parents Teachers Association-PTA says parents
flocked the school after learning that UNEB had released the results.
The
examinations were conducted on November 8 and 9, 2022, with a total of 832,810
candidates registered from 14,153 examination centers.
51.9 percent of the total registered
candidates were females and 48.1 percent were males. 583,769 were funded under
the Universal Primary Education-UPE program, and 249,041 were non-UPE
candidates.
