The results of the last Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination have been released with the best score of 428 marks out of a possible 500.
There were 8,525 candidates — 0.6 percent of the total population that sat the tests — who scored between 400 and 500 marks, a slight drop compared to last year’s exam results.
Candidates who scored between 300 and 399 marks were 352,782, representing 24.92 percent of the 1,406,557 that sat for the national exam that started on October 30.
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Those who scored between one and 99 marks were 2,060 in the year when some parents sneaked their children to enrol for the exam to dodge the the new competence based curriculum (CBC).
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu said all the candidates will transition to Form One whose placement starts next week on November 27 and take two weeks.
Mr Machogu said the government made a deliberate effort in this last test that marks the end of 8-4-4 system and allowed 205 pupils who did not register to sit for the test.
In January, the CS said, 9,354 learners will sit a special exam to transition them to secondary school since KCPE had run its full course after 39 years.
Peter Oloo Aringo was the first Education minister under the regime of President Daniel Moi to release the results of this test that 26 million learners sat to date.
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