BY RWENZORI DAILY
The Uganda National Examination Board-UNEB Executive Director, Mr Daniel Odongo has revealed that the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE will be released next week. This comes at a time when most schools countrywide are preparing to open for the new academic year 2023.
It is reported that, the Primary Leaving Exams were marked at 13 centers by 5,544 examiners and the exams are ready to be released next week.
The UNEB Executive Director was yesterday appearing before the Parliamentary Education Committee and said that marking of PLE and the Uganda Certificate of Education-UCE exams ended before Christmas.
“The PLE exams were marked at 13 centers by 5,544 examiners. Marking of UCE examinations has also ended,” Mr Odongo said.
“We are finalizing a few things at the headquarters in Ntinda, Kampala, before we start releasing them consecutively,” he added.
Mr. Odongo in a company of other members at UNEB was appearing before Parliament to defend their budget framework paper for the Financial Year 2023/2024. A total of 832,839 candidates sat for PLE.
