UACE 2025 Results Released:Female Candidates Outperform Males

 March 13, 2026   |    11 views

KAMPALA-The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has released the 2025 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) results, with female candidates performing better proportionally than their male counterparts.

UNEB Executive Director Dan Odongo announced the results on Friday during an official release ceremony held at State House.

According to UNEB, a total of 166,400 candidates registered for the 2025 UACE examinations, compared to 141,996 candidates in 2024, representing an increase of 24,404 candidates or 17.2 percent

Of the candidates who registered, 72,764 (43.7 percent) were female, while 93,636 (56.3 percent) were male.

Odongo said that proportionally, female candidates registered better performance than males

“The percentage passes at the upper levels (3P and 2P) are higher, while the percentage passes at the lower levels and the failure rate among female candidates are lower than for the males,” Odongo said.

He added that female candidates performed better than males at the principal level pass (A–E) in most humanities subjects as well as in Mathematics, Physics, General Paper, Subsidiary Mathematics and Subsidiary ICT.

However, Odongo noted that male candidates still performed better at the highest grade level in some subjects.

“At the top level of A passes, the males scored better than the females in Mathematics and the Sciences,” he said.

Odongo also explained that female candidature in Sciences and Mathematics remains lower than that of males, which reflects the overall lower female enrolment in the examinations.