Momentum is building in secondary schools across the the country as O-level candidates prepare to sit for the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) officially starting on Friday October 14.
So far, students who offer disciplines of home management, food and nutrition and textile science practicals have all week been busy with the final exams.
According to the timetable set by exams body UNEB obtained by NewVision, the UCE exams will officially start on Friday with briefing of candidates and will end on November 23 with technical drawing and music.
Normally, UNEB arranges a special timetable for some practical exams including language oral exams and music done before the official start of the national exams.
These will be submitted before Friday.
On Monday, candidates will begin with Physics practicals in the morning then fine art and shorthand in the afternoon.
UNEB publicist Hamis Kaheeru, said the ongoing practical exams are done by a few candidates and therefore are done before the general timetable begins.
“These practical subjects take long duration of sessions and are registered by a few candidates and schools, but they are part of the final examinations. That is why we give them special provision of the timetable,” he said.
At Kyambogo College School, 220 candidates are set to do their final exams, of which 41 offer home management and 14 food and nutrition.
Nakhaima George, the director of studies at the school, said their candidates are ready to sit for the forthcoming exams and therefore those offering home management were busy cooking different kinds of food, baking, laying beds and knitting as part of their exam.
Meanwhile the UNEB timetable shows that the A-Level (UACE) examinations will start on Friday November 11 with briefing of candidates.
And then three days later, students will start with European History and with indigenous languages on December 6.
But before the A-Level exams, primary school candidates will sit their PLE on November 2 (Mathematics and Social Studies) and November 3 (Science and English).
Source: Kenneth Niwamanya/ NewVision
