Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha announced that seven candidates were found in possession of pre-prepared notes in examination rooms last month. Further, five cases of impersonation were detected.
The CS revealed that the President directed that all results for the 1,179,192 candidates who sat the examination are released. And that none should be canceled.
Consequently, all the candidates qualified to be admitted to secondary schools in line with the government’s 100 percent transition policy.
“The President pronounced himself that we shall release the results of all the candidates but those staffers who allowed this to happen shall be severely punished. As you can see, the President is extremely magnanimous with the children and ours is to obey his directive,” Prof Magoha said
The CS also admitted that the negligible cases of irregularities were due to the government’s robust multi-sectoral examinations monitoring team which either stamped out or nipped in the bud any irregularities before they could happen.
“These measures ensured that cases of irregularities during the sitting of the examinations, and during the marking process, were either stamped out or nipped in the bud before they could happen,” he said.
“We are determined to work with the relevant agencies to ensure that no candidate misses a place in secondary school,” said the trained Urologist said
“In the meantime, I urge all parents and guardians to take good care of their children so that all of them are able to take up their Form One spaces in the schools that they will be admitted to,” he added.
He added that the number of candidates who sat the examinations increased by 95,736 from the 1,083,456 candidates in 2019.
Female candidate numbers increased slightly more than their male counterparts registering 48,868 and 46,868 respectively with the overall number being 590,450 (50.07 percent) for boys and 588,742 (49.93 percent) girls.
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According to the data, 20 counties registered more female than male candidates including Isiolo, Meru, Vihiga, Kakamega, Busia, Nairobi, Kwale, Elgeyo Marakwet, Siaya, Tharaka Nithi, Kisii, Kisumu, Bungoma, Kilifi, Lamu, Bomet, Mombasa, Uasin Gishu, Makueni, and Migori.
In the overall outcome, the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams were better than in 2019, despite the long break occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic.
And while the highest score was 433 marks, lower than the top score of 440 marks out of a possible 500 in 2019, it is remarkable that last year only a total of 307 candidates scored below 99 marks.
In the 2020 KCPE exams, a total of 8,091 scored between 400 and 500 marks, compared to 9,673 in that range of marks in 2019.
Those who scored between 300 and 399 marks are 282,090, a figure that is way higher than 242,821 in the same range in 2019.
A total of 589,027 scored between 200 and 299 marks in last year’s exams, compared to 566,069 in the previous year.
Some 299,677 candidates had between 100 and 199 marks, compared to 263,500 in 2019. Unlike in 2019, where a total of 1,393 candidates scored between 0 and 99 marks, in the 2020 exams only 307 candidates scored 99 marks and below.
In terms of gender, girls performed better than boys.
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