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Angupale Swadick Acting RCC Arua City releasing the mock results at St Joseph's College Ombaci. By Onzoma AlbertArua City The West Nile Secondary Schools Examination Council (WENSSEC) has released the 2025 regional mock examination results, covering 158 out of
Angupale Swadick Acting RCC Arua City releasing the mock results at St Joseph's College Ombaci.
By Onzoma Albert
Arua City
The West Nile Secondary Schools Examination Council (WENSSEC) has released the 2025 regional mock examination results, covering 158 out of 267 participating secondary schools in the region.
The results, released at St Joseph’s College Ombaci, highlights a concerning decline in students’ performance across both the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) exams, despite an increase in candidate numbers from 13,000 last year to 15,000 this year.
The best candidate scored 14 points, down from 16 points in the previous year, indicating a dip in overall academic achievement.
The report attributes the decline to multiple factors, notably the industrial action by the Uganda Professional Humanity Teachers Union during the last term, which disrupted teaching and preparation for examinations.
The results show that most students performed poorly, with many falling between D and E grades, and only few attaining higher grades between A and C in UCE.
In response, the authorities and stakeholders expressed concern over the declining standards and emphasized the need for increased efforts to boost academic performance in the region.
Omikowun Koiter, the regional chairperson for West Nile secondary school head teachers association and head teacher of Packwach secondary school, called for collective action to address these issues.
“In terms performance we have seen this year the has dropped slightly and we think that there were some factors that caused the decline in performance but we remain quite optimistic despite the slight decline yet we should have been improving but we have registered that decline, so should ways of improving the decline in performance as a reason by addressing the root cause” she said.
Swadick Angupale, the acting resident city commissioner of Arua city, congratulated the schools that participated and performed well in the mock exams, urging the schools that did not participate to join next year’s assessments.
“I want thank and congratulate all the students who participated in the 2025 regional mock examinations from all the schools in West Nile region, although there are some schools which did not sat for the exams about 109 in number I want to encourage the school heads of those to join so that their learners participate in the exams at regional level” he noted.
Raymond Ombere, the city education officer of Arua city, urged the stakeholders to work collaboratively to improve efforts and competitiveness in the national examinations.
“The result reflects that a lot of work needs to be done as a region from the total number of points we have got as a region, which means we need to put in a lot of effort at the various levels to make sure that the results presents the best picture of us as a region at the national level” he appealed.
The authorities stressed that addressing these challenges requires concerted efforts from educational institutions, teachers, students and the community to ensure better performance in future examinations.