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Region registers fewer boys for national exam

KCPE candidates at Victoria Primary School in Kisumu frisked before sitting the examinations last year. [File, Standard]

The number of female students sitting national examinations in Nyanza has for the first time surpassed their male counterparts' this year.

Even though some Nyanza counties registered higher number of girls than boys for the examinations in the past years, the overall statistics have always placed the population of the males ahead.

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