KAMPALA —The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has released the results of the 2020 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) — showing miserable performance in science subjects.
UNEB says candidates, parents and other interested parties may use the Short Message Services (SMS) on mobile telecom networks which will post the results of candidates on their mobile sets instantly.
For School Administrations, UNEB says results will be uploaded on the examination Centre portals to enable schools download the results as they are officially released.
“No hard copies of the results will be available at the UNEB offices for now, until a later date when conditions permit”
This will be done by typing UCE <Space> Full Index Number of the candidate, e.g. U0001/008 and send to 6600 on all mobile telecom networks, ” UNEB says.
We bring you an easy and hassle-free SMS service that will make it possible for candidates to check and access their results.
How check results on phone
You can get the 2020 UCE results for any candidate in a few simple steps.
In your message box, type UCE <space> INDEX NUMBER and send it to 6600.
For example, to check the results of the candidate with index number U1016/001, in your message box, type UCE U1016/001 AND SEND TO 6600.
The user should then receive his/her examination results or registration details instantly.
You will receive an SMS at a cost of UGX 500 per candidate
How to type UCE 2020 message
Go to messages
Type UCE
Leave space
Type the full index number
Send to 6600
How to check results through the internet?
Go to your web browser, Type ereg.uneb.ac.ug/results.
In the form, enter the candidate’s Index Number and click SEARCH.
A page with the Candidate’s results will load.
However, recently, UNEB blocked the online option of checking Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) 2020 results after pressure from telecom companies MTN Uganda and Airtel Uganda who were contracted to post results to students via Mobile SMS.
To this effect, the portal remained unavailable and UNEB advised parents and their pupils to utilize SMS services on mobile networks which will post results of candidates on their mobile sets instantly.
