Less pupils score above 400 in KCPE
Thursday April 15 2021
By HELLEN GITHAIGA
The number of candidates who scored 400 marks and above in the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination dropped by 16.4 per cent for a second year in a row at a time the school calendar was interrupted by the long closure occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Of the 1,179,192 million pupils who sat for the national exams last month, 8,091 scored above 400, a drop from 9,673 in 2019.
“When the Covid-19 pandemic befell the country in March 2020, the education sector was one that got completely disoriented. The future of our 15 million basic education learners seemed thrown deep into turmoil,” Education Secretary George Magoha noted as he released the results on Thursday.