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Why academic performance in Mt Kenya region is on the decline

Isaac Mugambi of Langa Langa Secondary school in Nakuru celebrate with teachers and parents at the school on January 20, 2023, after he Scored an A of 84 points in the KCSE Examinations. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

As expected, the recently released Kenya 2022 KCSE results has elicited raucous debates - some with overtones of impolite ethnic profiling - revolving around skewed normal curves, leakages, cheating, poaching of blue-chip high school principals, and so on.

The din has almost drowned two important features of this examination. One is our nation's addiction to the 'A' mean grade, a defeatist obsession which is bound to encourage cheating, and which greatly justifies the need to transit to the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC).

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