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Knec ignored crucial steps, released ‘abnormal KCSE results’

Joyce Chepngeno Bore (in black top) is congratulated by Moi Tea girl’s secondary school principal Mary Koske and family members. Bore scored an A –plain of 81 points.

A new report has explained why many candidates who sat the 2016 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations failed.

Of the 574,125 candidates who sat the examinations, some 295,463 students scored grade D and below. Of these, 33,399 scored E, 149,929 attained grade D– while 112,135 posted grade D. Only 141 candidates scored the coveted grade A with some 4,645 candidates scoring grade A– while 10,975 attained B+.

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