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KCPE candidates join Form One today amid mass failures

Kenya National Union of Teachers Secretary General Wilson Sossion (left) with Trade Unions Congress of Kenya Deputy Secretary Charles Mukhwaya during a press briefing. [Photo: David Njaaga/Standard]

More than 780,000 pupils who sat the 2016 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams begin joining Form One today even while questions abound over their performance in the national tests.

Uproar has greeted the mass failures recorded in last year's examinations, especially the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) papers.

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