The Ministry of Education and Sports will officially release the 2025 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) results tomorrow at State House, Nakasero
The announcement coincides with the ongoing Senior One placement exercise, now in its second day at UMA Show Grounds, Lugogo. During the placement, over 730,000 students who passed the 2025 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) are being allocated to secondary schools, vocational centers, and tertiary institutions according to their performance and school preferences.
This year’s O-Level cycle saw 432,159 students register, representing a notable rise of 12 percent from 2024. The exams were conducted under the Lower Secondary Competency-Based Curriculum, with Continuous Assessment (CA) scores from schools contributing 20 percent of the final grade, and the UNEB end-of-cycle examinations accounting for the remaining 80 percent.
Among the candidates, 154,637 are beneficiaries of the Universal Secondary Education (USE) programme, while the rest are privately sponsored. Female students make up just over half of the candidates (52.7%), with males accounting for 47.3 percent.
Despite challenges posed by a teachers’ industrial action during the examination period, UNEB confirmed that the exams proceeded smoothly, ensuring that students could complete the assessments on schedule.
The release of UCE results and ongoing Senior One placement underscore the Ministry’s commitment to transparent and merit-based progression, as students transition from primary to secondary education.
This is the second cycle of examinations to be released under the continuous assessment modalities. The 2024 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) results, showed a pass rate of 98.05 percent. A total of 350,146 candidates successfully passed the first examinations conducted under the new Lower Secondary Competency-Based Curriculum.
The 2024 cycle introduced letter grades (A to E), replacing the previous 1–9 grading system to better reflect student achievement under the new curriculum.
In subject-specific performance, Art & Design recorded the highest top-grade achievement, with 13 percent of candidates earning grade A, while History and Political Education had 6.4 percent in grade A. Conversely, Physics was among the more challenging subjects, with 12.8 percent of candidates performing below basic competency levels.
A separate transitional exam was administered to 10,141 candidates who had been studying under the old curriculum.