60,941 candidates who sat for the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education in 2017, got the two principal passes required to join any University for a degree course.
The candidates represent over 60.7 percent of the 100,066 candidates who sat for the advanced level (A-level) examinations.
This was announced today by the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) as they released 2017 A-level examination results.
Speaking at the ceremony where she handed over the examinations to the Minister for Higher Education John Chrysestom Muyingo. the chairperson of UNEB Prof Mary Okwakol also announced that the results of 79 candidates from 24 centres have been withheld over malpractice.
“Examination malpractice leads to poor doctors, poor judicial officers and engineers. This should be a matter of everyone's concern,” she said.
In the results released today, over 98.5 percent of the candidates who sat for the 2017 examinations got atleast one subsidiary pass in a principal subject and qualify for a UACE certificate, compared to 97.7 percent in the previous year.