Uganda National Examination board has withheld 2020 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) for 1,292 candidates over examination malpractice.
Dan Odongo the Uneb executive secretary said the affected candidates will be given a fair hearing.
Odongo made the remarks while releasing results at State House Nakasero and he added that examination centres from which results are withheld will be notified through their portals.
Odongo notes that the majority of the malpractices were reported in science subjects: physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. Odongo says the most common form of malpractice was recorded external assistance.
In 2020, 330,592 candidates (165,251 males and 165,341 females) appeared for the examination compared to 333,060 candidates who appeared for the examination in 2019.
This is a decrease of 2,468 (-0.7%) candidates.
Odongo, attributes the decrease in cases to the new measures set up by the examination board.
The number of females who sat was more than that of males by 90 candidates.
The Uganda national examination board says they registered low candidature of candidates who sat for the 2020 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) due to various reasons, top among which include Coronavirus induced lockdown where schools were closed.
Speaking at the release of the UCE results, Dr Kendrice Turyagenda, the director Education standards in the ministry of education said that the board used to record an increase of candidature between 2 to 3 per cent in the previous years.
She however, noted that in the 2020 UCE exams, candidature reduced by 1.3 percent over various reasons.
Candidature decreased by 4,324 (-1.3 percent) from 337,720 in 2019 to 333,396.
According to Dr Kedrice, some private schools failed to reopen after the lockdown and some learners failed to find other schools to register for UCE 2020.
She also says that some parents failed to return their children to school over fear of Covid while some girls had already gotten married.
