KCSE Candidates Stage Protest After All of Them Score D’s

KCSE Candidates Stage Protest After All of Them Score D’s

KCSE Candidates Stage Protest After All of Them Score D’s

Students from Oruba Boys High School demonstrated outside the Migori County Director of Education’s office on January 10 to voice their disapproval following their D-grades on the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). Of the 75 pupils enrolled in the school, 72 reported receiving Ds, two received C-scores, and one received an E.

The students claimed that the results were fake since, in a media interview, they revealed that they had never performed so poorly in their whole academic careers. “We were surprised by what we observed when we took the exam with 75 students. It’s rife with irony. We haven’t seen this item for sure, Djijon Omondi, a student, said.

Students tried to contact their school principal and his deputy after the exam results were announced, but none of them answered the phone.Their complaints were not addressed by the county education office; instead, they were told by subordinate personnel to register the discrepancies with the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC).

Out of frustration, the students retreated to march in the streets while carrying banners. They, however, did not disclose whether they or their guardians would visit KNEC offices or seek legal redress in court. Conversely, a section of parents and students also stormed into two schools in Nandi County after missing out on their results due to unknown reasons.

Students at Samoei Boys Secondary in Nandi Hills and Taachasis Girls in Tinderet have accused KNEC of concealing their grades without offering an explanation.Ezekiel Machogu, the cabinet secretary for education, directed stakeholders to look into the widespread failure of the 2023 KCSE candidates but did not say whether KNEC withheld any results.

Speaking on January 8, at Moi Eldoret Girls High School, CS Machogu asserted that 2023 marked the most number of E’s ever in Kenyan exam history.”The fact that a significant portion of candidates (48,174, or 5.33%) were still able to achieve 38 a mean grade of E in the 2023 KCSE Examination, even after the Ministry employed a more accommodating method to determine the final overall candidate results, pains me,” Machogu said.

Furthermore, parents who downloaded slips for their applicants and claimed to have received different results were not given any attention by the CS. One parent expressed regret over getting two slips showing his child’s mean grades of B+ and A-.