Only 165,766 of the 522,870 candidates who sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination last year attained the minimum university qualifications of C+ and above. This translates to 31.52 per cent of the total number candidates compared to 30.78 per cent (149,717 candidates) who attained an overall mean grade of C+ and above in the 2014 KCSE examination.
Education Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i while releasing the results on Thursday said analysis of the number of candidates attaining a mean grade of C+ and above shows that 95,533 male (57.63 per cent) and 70,233 female candidates (42.37 per cent) attained an overall mean grade of C+ and above.
He, however, observed that candidates with an overall mean grade of A decreased from 3,073 candidates (0.63 per cent) in 2014 to 2,636 candidates (0.50 per cent) in 2015. “Analysis of the candidates who attained an overall mean grade of A by gender shows that 1,976 male candidates (74.96 per cent) and 660 female candidates (25.04 per cent) attained this highest possible grade,” he said.
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Instituting taskforce
Failure by majority of the candidates to attain the minimum requirement to progress to university has seen Dr Matiang’i institute a task-force to probe the low performance of most KCSE candidates. “The fact that we have less than half of the entire cohort that sat for the 2015 KCSE examination scoring a mean grade of C+ and above is quite worrying, considering the huge investment that the Government is making in the education sector,” he said.
“In view of this, I am today forming an inter-agency team made up of officers from the Ministry of Education, Science & Technology, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, Teachers Service Commission and the Kenya National Examinations Council to look into the performance of candidates in the last three years with an aim of determining the factors that have led to this phenomenon in a bid to inform the curriculum review process.”
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He further noted: “I appoint the Director General, State Department of Education, MoEST, Mrs Leah Rotich with instructions to immediately commence work based on the specific Terms of Reference I will provide to the team.
Analysis of the year 2015 KCSE examination national performance of candidates by subject indicates that Power Mechanics and Electricity recorded the highest percentage mean performance with mean scores of 69.71 per cent and 67.06 per cent respectively.
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