Ezekiel Machogu, Cabinet Secretary for Education, has officially released the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination results, which he claims show an improvement over last year.
Machogu announced the results at the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) headquarters in Nairobi on Friday, noting that 173,345 of the 881,416 candidates who took the 2022 KCSE exam received the minimum university entry grade of C+ or higher, compared to 145,776 in 2021.
According to the Education CS, 1,146 candidates got an A in 2022, compared to 1,138 in 2021.
A total of 522,588 candidates scored grade D+ and above in the 2022 KCSE exam.
The CS also noted that the number of candidates who scored an E on the 2022 KCSE exam dropped significantly, from 46,151 in 2021 to 30,822 in 2022.
“Encouragingly, the number of candidates obtaining a mean grade of E in 2022 declined significantly to 30,822 (3.49%) despite the increase in candidature, compared with 46,151 (5.56%) in 2021. This clearly leads us to conclude that most of the candidates scored grades of higher quality,” said the CS.
“Most significantly, all the remaining candidates are legible to join TVET institutions, Teacher Training Colleges, Medical 24 Training Colleges and other tertiary learning institutions for various courses,” he added.
In the 2022 KCSE exam, 190 candidates with special needs scored a C+ and above overall grade.
In terms of subject performance, the CS stated that 17 subjects improved compared to 11 in 2021, while four subjects showed no significant improvement this year.
