Results

St Aloysius Primary School, Mbarara 2022 PLE Results: Div 1 = 77, Div 2 = 50, Absent = 1, Total = 128.
#WeStillStriveForSuccess

St Aloysius Primary School, Mbarara 2022 PLE Results: Div 1 = 77, Div 2 = 50, Absent = 1, Total = 128.
#WeStillStriveForSuccess

Today Friday 27th January 2023, The Minister of Education and Sports released results of PLE 2022. Many of our pupils and parents are eagerly awaiting the release of final grades and exam results from the UNEB portal and the school. However, due to a technical issue with UNEB, the release of these results have been delayed.

One of the reasons for the delay was logistical issues that were caused by unclear communication between UNEB and schools affected by this delay. For this reason therefore, schools may have had challenges meeting their end of the bargain (even unintentionally as in our case) with UNEB which made it more difficult to process and release results in a timely manner.

The UNEB PLE 2020 results were released today Friday 16th July 2022 by the Honorable Minister of Education and Sports and First Lady Janet Kataha Museveni. The 2020 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) results have seen an improved performance of pupils scoring Division One, despite the lockdown that had pupils spending the entire year at home.

At least 659,910 candidates passed the 2020 PLE compared to only 617,150 who passed the previous year. This means more pupils have qualified to join post-primary institutions than the previous year. Overall, 11.1 per cent of the candidates passed in Division One compared to 10.1 in 2019, while 56.7 per cent passed in Division Two, same as was in the previous year.

Details of these results for St. Aloysius Primary School are readily available in their entirety below. Division I = 88, Division II = 51, Total = 139.

When a parent picks a primary school for their child, all they care about are the chances of the child performing well in Primary Leaving Examinations.

Increasingly, that means not only passing in first grade, but also scoring highly while doing so. In PLE terms, that means aiming for a first distinction in each subject, or getting aggregate 4. That is the only way a child can get into the top-ranked secondary school.

In last week’s selection of pupils for senior one, King’s College Buddo, St Mary’s Kitende and Uganda Martyrs Namugugongo only took boys who had scored aggregate 4. The situation was only slightly better for girls, with the likes of King’s College Buddo, St Mary’s College Namagunga and Gayaza High School only taking girls who got at least aggregate 5.

So parents will usually take their children to the schools where the children will stand the highest chance of passing highly, to the extent that they can afford such schools. The fact that the Uganda Nation Examinations Board considers candidates up to division 4 to have passed is not much consolation to candidates who don’t make it to division one, their parents, or even their teachers.