Before you start: gather these two pieces of information
- Your exam registration number. Printed on the admission card EAES issued before the exam. If you do not have it, ask your school's exam coordinator — they keep the master register.
- The first name you registered with. Capitalization and spelling must match what is in EAES's system. If your name is normally written with an apostrophe or a hyphen, try it both ways.
The 4-step process
- Go to the official portal: result.eaes.et. Do not use third-party sites; they cannot publish results before EAES does and any score they show before then is not official.
- Choose Grade 12 from the exam options on the landing page.
- Enter your registration number and first name exactly as registered, then submit.
- Your subject-by-subject scores and aggregate appear on screen. Screenshot the page immediately. Email yourself a copy as a backup.
If the portal is down
On result-release day, EAES receives traffic from several hundred thousand students at the same time. The portal slows or returns errors. This is normal. Three things help:
- Wait and retry. Try again in 2–3 hours, or check overnight when traffic is lighter.
- Use a different network. If you are on mobile data and the page times out, try a Wi-Fi connection (or vice versa).
- Try a desktop browser. The mobile site sometimes throttles harder than the desktop version under heavy load.
Reading your result
Each subject shows an individual score. An aggregate score is computed from the subject scores according to the weighting EAES publishes for that year. The aggregate is what determines whether you qualify for university placement and which programs you can apply to.
Universities and programs publish their own placement criteria each cycle. A score that gets you into one program may not get you into another. Use the placement criteria published by the Ministry of Education for the current cycle as the authoritative source.
If your result is lower than you hoped
You are not alone. The historical pass rate for the ESSLCE is well below 50% nationally. Three options are available:
- Apply to a program your score qualifies for. Many students find their second-choice path becomes their actual path — and many succeed there.
- Retake in the next cycle. EAES allows retakes. With a focused study plan built on past papers, score improvements on retake are common.
- Enroll in a private university or a TVET program. Many quality alternatives exist outside the public-university placement system.
Whatever path you choose, the next exam — or the next opportunity — comes around faster than you think. PrepX is built to help you prepare for it.