Over 200,000 candidates who sat for the 2015 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and scored below 250 marks are likely to miss out slots to join secondary school.
According to statistics and figures by the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC), 3, 061 candidates scored between 000 and 100 marks while 215,614 candidates scored between 101 and 200 marks.
While releasing the results on Wednesday at Mithani House in Nairobi, Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i encouraged the students who perfumed below average to join polytechnics and to other tertiary institutions.
The CS said that the government has put in place measures to ensure that such students get vocational training.
“We are encouraging students who got below 250 marks and who are likely to miss out on admission to secondary schools to enroll in tertiary institutions,” said the CS.
According to the results released on Wednesday, 499,568 candidates scored between 201 and 300 marks, 201, 986 candidates scored between 301 and 400 marks while 7,560 candidates scored between 401 and 500 marks.
A total of 927,789 candidates sat for the 2015 examination compared to 880,486 candidates who sat for the same examination in 2014.
Cases of examination irregularities were high in this year examination with 2709 cases being reported compared to 1702 cases in 2014.