Uganda, Feb. 2 -- Most of the traditional secondary schools across the country have maintained last year's Senior One cut-off points after a higher proportion of candidates passed last year's Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE).

A total of 648,662 candidates, who passed PLE in four different grades, are scheduled to report on February 19, for their opening term after they were placed in different secondary schools across the country. The candidates were placed basing on their respective schools choices.

Some of the top schools from the central region set Aggregate Five for boys and Seven for girls, western region 10 for girls and eight for boys while the remaining regions are admitting those with 13 points for both.

Gayaza High School i...