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Number of girls sitting Form 4 exam on the rise

Kipsigis Girls High School's Brendah Cherotich led the list of top under-16 students. She had a mean score of 87.06.

The academic gap between girls and boys is narrowing if the 2021 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination results are anything to go by.

The results released by Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha show that of the 826,807 candidates who sat the 2021 KCSE tests, 421,318 were male while 405,489 were female, representing 50.96 and 49.04 per cent of the total candidature respectively.

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