Central region comes top as north trails in A-Level results

Kampala.

Schools from central Uganda once again took the lion’s share of students who passed the 2017 advanced level national exams by the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb).
Saturday Monitor analysis of the 2017 UACE results places central region in the top position, followed by western, eastern and northern region tailing the four regional performance ladder.
Central region, which had produced the highest number of candidates who passed Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) and Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) in 2017, once again conquered the rest of the country in the UACE results released by Uneb on Wednesday.
A total of 23,149 candidates in central region passed with three principal passes, 14,430 got two principal passes, 10,601 with one principal pass and 5,880 got subsidiary passes. Those who failed in central region were 400.
In western region, which came second in the ranking, had 6,683 candidates with three principal passes, 5,517 with two principal passes, 5,247 with one principal pass, 3,630 subsidiary passes whereas 236 failed.
Eastern region schools maintained the third spot, with 3,851 students obtaining three principal passes, 4,544 with two principal passes, 4,873 one principal pass, 4,595 subsidiary passes and 410 failures.
Of the 6,017 candidates graded from schools in northern Uganda, 1,127 got three principal passes, 1,603 got two principal passes and 1,688 got one principal pass. Those with subsidiary passes were 1,506, whereas the region had the least number of failures, standing at 93.