Results of primary national examinations show that girls have performed better where the former scored 54% and boys 45.33%, while in ordinary level exams girls that passed were at 51.70% leaving 48.30% for boys.
A good 84.82% of pupils that sat for primary six exams passed well while 87.24 ordinary level candidates showed a good performance.
The ministry of education says that last year some students who registered for exams didn’t sit for them. Primary schools realized 4.5% of absence while 2% missed in ordinary levels.
Primary schools
Among 160, 357 students who registered for national exams in 2015, 71 998 were boys and 88 355 girls.
“A total of 136 007 registered candidates have passed successfully. This number equivalent of 84.82 % of candidates. The success has increased compared to last year since in 2014 the success was 84.5% of candidates,” said Olivier Rwamukwaya, the permanent secretary of MINEDUC.
Ordinary level
The ministry of education says that there is a great improvement since pass rate reached 87.24 % compared to 86.56% in 2014.
At ordinary level, 74 036 students passed; 38 277 girls (51.70 %) and 35 759 boys (48.30%).
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