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Why academic performance in Mt Kenya region is on the decline

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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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