PLE Examination Dates

PLE Examination Dates For 2023/2024

PLE Examination Dates For 2023/2024; Primary Leaving Examinations has released the exams and teaching Timetable for 2023/2024 academic year Check details below

PLE UNEB EXAMINATION TIMETABLE GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

The purpose of the examination is to assess the candidates’ level of achievement. It is not an end in itself but will help to place candidates in their career paths. Candidates should therefore approach the examination without panic.

TIME ALLOWED FOR THE QUESTION PAPER: The time allowed for each paper is shown against the name of the paper and NO EXTRA TIME IS TO BE ALLOWED. In case of any discrepancy, the time stated on the question paper must be taken as correct. Any time allocated for reading through questions, studying maps, etc. is included in the total time shown except when special paper instructions indicate otherwise. PLE Examination Dates

In drawing up a detailed timetable for circulation to schools and/or candidates the Board is guided by the following rules:

1.Papers included in the same period should begin at the same time, except when a candidate is offering two papers in the same period, the second paper should be timed to follow the first after a reasonable interval, but not exceeding 30 minutes.

2.Daytime periods should be provided for Art Papers.

3.No candidate may take more than one of the papers bracketed together.

IMPORTANT:

Candidates’ attention is drawn to the “Directions to Candidates” and “Caution Against Malpractice in or around the Examination Room” at the end of this document. It is hereby assumed that candidates and all concerned have read, understood and will abide by these regulations. PLE Examination Dates

TIMETABLE FOR PLE PRACTICAL TESTS AND THEORY

Timetable for PLE Practical Tests and Theory for 2023 IS NOT OUT YET

DIRECTIONS TO CANDIDATES

1.Ease yourself before entering the examination room. No candidate will be allowed to leave the examination room before the end of the examination time.

2.Be at the examination hall at least 30 minutes before the start of the examination ready to be identified and checked. Any candidate who comes more than 15 minutes late from the start of an examination will not be allowed to sit the examination.

3.Present yourself at the entrance to the examination hall for checking by the chief invigilator/invigilators. They have been instructed to check you thoroughly, including your pockets, shoes and body.

4.Do not indulge in any form of examination malpractice. Please Do not smuggle unauthorized materials e.g. notes, text books, etc. into the examination rooms; do not write on your body clothes, mathematical sets or calculators.

5.At the start of each examination, make sure you (or student representatives) examine the examination question paper envelope(s) to find out whether it/they is/are intact or already opened. If the envelope(s) is/are opened outside the examination room, then report immediately to the Executive Secretary UNEB, P O Box 7066 Kampala, E-mail:uneb@uneb.ac.ug. PLE Examination Dates

6.Follow the examination paper rubric and the instructions on the front page of the answer booklet. Do not use pencils to write answers except when drawing diagrams and graphs. Answers written in pencil will NOT BE MARKED. Do not answer more questions than asked for in the rubric. The examiners will not mark the extra questions. PLE Examination Dates

7.Write your correct names, numbers and signature on your answer booklets for all the papers you take. These must be the same as on the entry form you filled at registration. Candidates with differing names in any of their papers will not get results.

8.Sit only the examination papers you have registered for. No results will be issued for papers you have not registered for. PLE Examination Dates

9.Sit the examination only at the centre/school where you have been registered to take it.

10.Do not go out before or immediately at the end of each examination. Witness the checking and sealing of the scripts first.

11.Leave used or unused answer booklet(s) inside the examination room.

12.No separate paper will be provided for rough work.

13.Mobile phones are not allowed in or around the examination room.

14.Sharing of calculators, mathematical tables, rulers, pens, etc. is not permitted during the examination.

CAUTION AGAINST MALPRACTICE IN OR AROUND THE EXAMINATION ROOM

Breach of instructions/regulations, irregularity, misconduct or dishonesty (cheating) in connection with UNEB examinations may lead to disqualification or cancellation of results of a candidate or of all candidates at a centre. Any candidate found involving himself/herself in malpractice in the examination may be refused to continue with his/her examination, disqualified, arrested and handed over to the Police. Such a candidate may be barred from sitting any other UNEB examinations. PLE UNEB Examination Timetable Pdf

CANDIDATES AND ALL CONCERNED MUST NOTE THAT INVOLVEMENT IN MALPRACTICE IN ONE PAPER SHALL LEAD TO THE CANCELLATION OF RESULTS OF THE WHOLE EXAMINATION.

Where malpractice is suspected, candidates and all concerned will be summoned to appear before the Board.

The following are cases of malpractice that will lead to disqualification, cancellation of results or arrest of a candidate:

1.Smuggling of unauthorized material into the examination room.

2.Copying from one another (collusion), or leaving work exposed such that another candidate can copy from.

3.External assistance given by teachers and/or any other persons.

4.Prior knowledge of examination questions, or confidential advance instructions.

5.Impersonation, i.e. hiring somebody else to sit the examination or where another person rather than the duly registered candidate sits the examination.

6.Improper behaviour, e.g. making noise, disobeying supervisors and the invigilators, violent behavior such as attacking or threatening invigilators, disrupting the examination etc. PLE Examination Dates

7.Substitution of examination scripts during or after the examination.

8.Irregularity e.g. taking longer time than that stipulated on the question paper to sit an examination or one candidate using different names.

9.Tearing the answer booklet/script into loose sheets, tearing out any pages of the script or folding the script in anyway. Torn scripts will not be marked and candidates involved may have their results cancelled.

10.Being in possession of a mobile phone or any other communication gadgets.

11.Any other cases of malpractice that shall be detected.

12.Being in possession of books or revision notes while in confinement before Science practicals.

Candidates should report directly to the Board any person (could be another candidate, Invigilator, Teacher or Headteacher) suspected to be indulging in examination malpractice. Use the address: Executive Secretary UNEB, P. O. Box 7066, Kampala.

E-mail: uneb@uneb.ac.ug

The Board reserves the right to declare publicly names of centres, candidates or anyone else who will have involved themselves in examination malpractice.

You will be able to access your examination results on a mobile phone as soon as they are released by sending a well formatted SMS as follows: Type “PLE”, leave a space, then type your index number and send to 6600 on networks as will be specified by the Board at the time of release of results. There should be no spaces in the index number. For example, PLE U2769/018.

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Contact Details

Uganda National Examinations Board

Plot 3546, martyrs Way Ntinda

P.O. Box 7066 Kampala, Uganda

Tel(1): +256 414 286635/6/7/8     Tel(2): +256-312-260753     |   E-mail: uneb@uneb.ac.ug