By Leilah Bbaale
The Primary Leaving Examination results released by UNEB have indicated that boys have once against outshined their female counterparts.
The results released on Friday afternoon at State House in Nakasero indicated that whereas girls beat boys in English language, the male counterparts performed better in the remaining subjects of Social Studies, Mathematics , Religious Education and Integrated Science.
The results indicate that 60,070 boys representing 15.4% passed in division one, compared to 54,547(12.9%) of girls whereas in division two, 172,827 boys representing 44.3% passed  in comparison to 184,972(43.9%) girls who passed in the same grade.
In grade three, 68,272 boys(17.5%) passed compared to 78,311(18.6%) girls and on the other side, 45,309(11.1%) boys failed compared to 51,800(12.3%) for girls.
According to UNEB overall candidates’ performance generally improved as can be seen at the percentages scoring distinction and credit grades.
A total of 114,617 candidates representing 14.1% passed in division one, 472,416(582%) were in division two whereas 97,109 candidates representing 12% of the total candidates who sat for the exams failed.
The results released on Friday indicated that just as been the case for many year, candidates under the government Universal Primary Education(UPE) program performed poorly again.
