A total of 173,345 students qualified for university placement after taking the 2022 KCSE exam.
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu announced the results on Friday, stating that 881,416 candidates took the national exams.
“The number of candidates with minimum university entry qualification of Grade C+ and above has risen to 173,345 (19.03%) in the year 2022 KCSE Examination compared to 145,776 (17.55%) in 2021,” Machogu said.
In the 2022 KCSE Examination, 1,146 (0.13%) candidates scored an overall Grade A, compared to 1,138 (0.14%) candidates in 2021.
The number of candidates with a D+ and above in the 2022 KCSE Examination is 522,588 (59.14%), up from 442,251 (53.29%) in 2021.
Despite the increased number of candidates, Machogu noted that 30,822 (3.49%) received an average grade of E in 2022, compared to 46,151 (5.56%) in 2021.
“This clearly leads us to conclude that most of the candidates scored grades of higher quality,” Machogu said.
“Most significantly, all the remaining candidates are legible to join TVET institutions, Teacher Training Colleges, Medical Training Colleges and other tertiary learning institutions for various courses,” he added.
Candidates have been told to go to their respective examination centres to pick up their results. Individual candidate results can also be obtained by sending an SMS to 20076 with the candidate’s index number followed by the initials “KCSE”.
