Talking at Shimo La Tewa secondary school in Mombasa the Education cabinet secretary Fred Matiangi announced the KCSE results with a shock. The principles and other stake holders in the education sector who are celebrating and on holidays were caught pants down by the Big announcement from the CS.
Only 141 candidates managed to score a mean grade of A-plain in this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination, a shocking and tremendous drop from 2,636 candidates who attained the same last year.
Only 88,928 candidates attained C-plus and above and the shocking result he said “Last year, schools which produced 196 straight As could not produce 15."
Kenya High School managed 21 straight A's this year, compared with 20 last year, Dr Matiang’i added.
The examination mood had been captured much earlier by Kenya National Examination Council chairman George Magoha, when he stated:
“The letter is very good and I can remember during my time, I only managed one A, only kamoja (one). The boy who got an A in my class, I can still remember him 40 years later, so this nonsense of everybody getting an A, please come out of it.”
The significant drop in perfomance this year was contributed to the tight security. There was no cheating hence no results were cancelled. All students will pick their respective results when the schools opened. The students' parents can access the results by sending their index number to SMS code 22252. The SMS cost is Sh25.
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