By: Melanie Aanyu

The Uganda Advanced Certificate of Examinations (UACE) yesterday kicked off smoothly across the country, with Senior Six candidates in Mbale City sitting in shifts due to over population.

Mr Moses Buyela, the head teacher of Mbale Secondary School, said all their 937 registered candidates turned up for the exams.

Mr Aggrey Othieno, the deputy head teacher of Mbale High School, said: “This time, the examination papers arrived early, and inspection was done in time, which enabled our candidates to start exams on time,” he said.

There were some isolated cases of delays in arrival of examination papers.