{"id":4354,"date":"2023-01-27T13:56:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2023-01-27T14:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T14:25:53","slug":"ple-boys-outshine-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2023\/01\/27\/ple-boys-outshine-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"PLE: Boys Outshine Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4359 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/FneJBBhXwAAdcEg-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/FneJBBhXwAAdcEg-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/FneJBBhXwAAdcEg.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>The Primary Leaving Examination results released by UNEB have indicated that boys have once against outshined their female counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_ads \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">A total of \u00a0\u00a0432,554 girls accounting for \u00a0\u00a051.9% registered for the 2022 PLE exams compared to the \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0400,100 (48.1%) who were boys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>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 \u00a0in comparison to 184,972(43.9%) girls who passed in the same grade.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>According to UNEB overall candidates\u2019 performance generally improved as can be seen at the percentages scoring distinction and credit grades.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 114,617 candidates representing 14.1% passed in division one,\u00a0 472,416(582%) were in division two whereas 97,109 candidates\u00a0 representing 12% of the total candidates who sat for the exams failed.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0 poorly again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}