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By Moses Ndhaye<\/strong><\/p>\n Boys have continued to outsmart girls in the 2018\u00a0Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) results, maintaining more than 10 years\u2019 record of excellent performance.<\/p>\n Releasing the results, the Uganda national examinations board Chairperson,\u00a0Mary Okwakol said girls were better in English and other Arts subjects while their male counterparts registered better performance in all subjects, sciences inclusive.<\/p>\n Okwakol meanwhile says overall English and Physics subject\u2019s registered an improved performance.<\/p>\n She adds that this year\u2019s candidature increased from 0.9% to 3.3% in 2018 with 50% of those seating for these being boys.<\/p>\n A total of 336,740\u00a0candidates\u00a0registered for the 2018 UCE examinations from 3,658 centers out of whom 169,984 were boys and 166,756 girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Moses Ndhaye Boys have continued to outsmart girls in the 2018\u00a0Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) results, maintaining more than 10 years\u2019 record of excellent performance. Releasing the results, the Uganda national examinations board Chairperson,\u00a0Mary Okwakol said girls were better in English and other Arts subjects while their male counterparts registered better performance in all subjects, sciences inclusive. Okwakol meanwhile says overall English and Physics subject\u2019s registered an improved performance. She adds that this year\u2019s candidature increased from 0.9% to 3.3% in 2018 with 50% of those seating for these being boys. A total of 336,740\u00a0candidates\u00a0registered for the 2018 UCE examinations from 3,658 centers out of whom 169,984 were boys and 166,756 girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}