Over 55pc of candidates rating D+ and beneath for eighth straight yr

Training Cupboard Secretary Ezekiel Machogu (second left), Kenya Nationwide Examinations Council Chairman Julius Nyabundi (left), Training Principal Secretary Dr Belio Kipsang (third proper), Academics Service Fee CEO Nancy Macharia and Uasin Gishu County Governor Jonathan Bii (proper) in the course of the launch of the 2023 Kenya Certificates of Secondary Training examination outcomes at Moi Women’ Excessive College in Eldoret city, Uasin Gishu County on January 8, 2024. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NMG

The proportion of scholars who scored D+ and beneath remained above 55 p.c of the entire candidate inhabitants for the eighth straight yr, revealing the quantity of labor required to enhance the outcomes.

Outcomes of the Kenya Certificates of Secondary Training (KCSE) examination launched on Monday confirmed that 494,317 candidates achieved both a D+ or beneath out of the entire 895,533 candidates who had been graded, representing 55.2 p.c of the candidates.

Whereas 903,138 registered for the examination, 899,453 sat for the check however the outcomes of 4,113 had been held on irregularities.

Regardless of being a small discount of 0.5 proportion factors from the earlier yr, the advance is overshadowed by the large variety of college students getting D+ and beneath remaining above 55 p.c because the reforms of 2016 when Fred Matiang’i used to be the Training Cupboard Secretary.

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An additional evaluation reveals that the variety of college students who scored E rose to 48,174, representing 5.4 p.c of whole candidates in 2023 from 30,822 in 2022 and three.5 p.c of candidates then.

Training CS Ezekiel Machogu mentioned the large variety of Es was painful even after the ministry modified the grading system, tying it to 2 versus the earlier 5 obligatory topics.

By gender composition, the variety of male college students who scored D+ and beneath had been 249,281 whereas females stood at 245,036.

On the flip facet greater than 201,133 college students achieved direct college entry grades, the best ever, representing barely over a fifth of the entire inhabitants.

The variety of feminine candidates scoring A, A-, B+ went up by near a 3rd to 10,881, sooner than their male counterparts that rose by 5 p.c to fifteen,667 from 14,898 beforehand.

The quantity that scored A-plain grew by 70 to face at 1,216, the best since 2015.

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