New curriculum: Learners exposed to wrong questions, UNEB warns

With just six weeks remaining before pioneer students sit for the first set of exams under the new lower secondary curriculum, a study conducted by the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has revealed that most teachers across the country have been presenting students with outdated questions during assessment. The findings indicate that instead of challenging students with higher-order questions that require critical thinking, teachers have continued to set questions based on the old curriculum. This has raised concerns among experts, who fear that candidates may struggle to interpret and respond to the questions accurately, given the fact that UNEB will base the upcoming examinations on the new competency-based curriculum. While releasing the findings on the implementation of the new competence-based […]