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Education CS Ezekiel Machogu chats with PS Belio Kipsand and TSC CEO Nancy Macharia after he announced the 2023 KCSE results at Moi Girls High School in Eldoret Uasin Gishu County on January 8, 2024. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

From the complaints over 2023 KCSE results, it is clear that there is a problem that needs to be addressed urgently.

In the 2022 results, issues were raised about schools that seemed to outperform themselves. This time it is the other way round, as some students and schools refuse the results. The complaints started immediately, with some candidates receiving two different results from the same portal. Complaints were raised over the misalignment of results across different subjects. We have seen the demos by students of Oruba Boys High School in Migori, where nearly all students got grade D.

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