Assessment body Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has released timetables — UACE, UCE, PLE and New Curriculum Timetables — for all national exams which will start this month and end in December 2024.
The released timetables are for Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE), New Lower Secondary Curriculum (NLSC) and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE).
The timetables released by Uneb indicate that both UCE and NLSC examinations will begin on Friday, October 11, 2024, with briefing.
NLSC examinations will end on Friday, November 11, 2024 while the transitional UCE papers will be completed on Friday, November 15, 2024. PLE exams will follow, beginning with briefing on Monday, November 04.
The examinations will end on Thursday, November 07, 2024. UACE exams, exams for Advanced Level (A-level or Senior Six – S6) will start with briefing on Friday, November 08, 2024, and end on Friday, December 06, 2024.
The UACE, UCE, PLE and New Curriculum Timetables include dates and the papers to be done on each day and period.
According to Uneb, 1,320,400 candidates are expected to sit the Four Examinations or 4Es. This figure indicates a 7.8 per cent increment compared to last year’s candidature of 1,224,371.
For Senior Six or A-level, a total of 142,017 candidates are expected to sit their UACE exams higher than 110,579 who sat the exams last year. A total of 379,620 candidates are expected to sit end of O-level (senior Four – S4) exams.
This figure includes 369,477 who registered for the NLSC and 10,143 for the UCE transitional examinations. For PLE, up to 798,763 candidates are expected to sit their end of primary examinations, higher than the 749,371 in 2023.
All the Uneb timetables for PLE, UCE transitional, NLSC and UACE are Here, There, Over Here and Over There.
You can read about guidelines for those repeating UCE or doing UCE exams for the old curriculum for the last time, as well as on submission of continuous assessment marks for students under the new curriculum Here and There.
The lists of top best performing schools in PLE, UCE and UACE in previous Uneb sittings are Here, There and Over There.
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