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I worked hard to demystify my PLE results - Ntungamo UCE star
Mr Francis Agaba who scored aggregate 10 at Rwentobo High School receives gifts from school directors. PHOTO | PEREZ RUMANZI
What you need to know:
- Agaba who used to be the best primary school pupil at World Shine Education Centre Primary School in Rwentobo town, scored Aggregates 8 in PLE and attempted to take his own life.
Francs Agaba, 17, scored Aggregates 10 at one of the remotest secondary schools in Ntungamo District, Rwentobo High School, a school he was admitted to 5 years ago after a suicide attempt following a depressing result at PLE.
Agaba who used to be the best primary school pupil at World Shine Education Centre Primary School in Rwentobo town, scored Aggregates 8 in PLE (2 in each subject).
My parents brought me here to keep monitoring me because I was depressed, all the pupils I used to outshine defeated me and I attempted to commit suicide. When I recovered, I worked so hard to demystify the result, I am so happy but not surprised that I passed like this,” he says.
The student who hails from Nyabugando, about 4Kms from the school says his parents Johnson Birakwate and Gensi Feddy were relieved after his performance at PLE as they had him at a school they could afford and with a bursary, though he protested the move.
“I later settled and concentrated, the environment became conducive, teachers gave me attention and counselled me, and my parents never failed to pay school fees because it was affordable, this enabled me to pass better,” he said.
The school head teacher Mr Vicent Mubangizi Barugahare said many good students fail A-level exams after changing schools where they did better at O’level, thus urging their best performers to remain at the school until they complete their secondary education.
