Numerous A grades in 2015 KCSE results due to easy exams

The high number of students who score A in our national examinations has continued to rise and the trend is worrying. One may be forced to ask whether Kenyan children have all of a sudden become so intelligent to the extent of a whole school scooping a mean grade of A! This high score of A grades simply means that the exams are easy, the marking is suspect or our students are pure genius. It's not rocket science to find out which is which.

While the opposite is also true, school heads and teachers have admitted that the growing number of students who attain the top score had diluted grade A. On the contrary, KNEC’s exams are lacking in applications and synthesis competency where questions are just simple thus diluting the value of marks awarded. One can also say that cheating cases have been on the rise, and that teachers can predict the questions being set by KNEC.