OLD IS GOLD: Meet the 71 Year Old Top KCPE Performer Set for Alliance Girls

The Say that old is gold was absolutely not crafted in vain. Seen as people with no academic prowess, the old in our society have at times been ignored and in severe situations neglected.

Many of them did not go to school during their earlier days on earth but if history is to go by, it is clearly evident that it wasn’t their fault. Some of them still have a thirst that need’s to be quenched, a thirst for Education. The need to get knowledge.

Such is the case of  71-year-old Loise Tukongole from Baringo County who went back to school at a very old age but still beat all odds to emerge among the top performers in this year’s KCPE examinations.

Despite her age and having to take care of 15 children, Loise beat most candidates scoring 320 marks out of the possible 500 marks.

Mama Loise sat her exams at Chepturu Primary School.

She said her aspiration is to join Alliance Girls and later become a doctor.

In this Years Exams, two candidates emerged the overall best with 453 marks out of the possible 500. They are Rawlings Odhiambo of Kakamega Hill and Olive Mwea a student from Riara school.

Candidates who scored between 301- 400 marks were 228,414 which is higher than what was witnessed back in 2017.

Those who scored etween 201- 300 marks were 574,927 while those who scored 101-200 were 234,573.

Candidates that scored between 0-100 were 2,177.

Education CS Amina Mohammed noted that more female candidates sat for this Years exams compared to their male counterparts.

23 out of 47 counties registered more female candidates. They include, Kakamega, Nairobi, Meru, Bungoma, Vihiga, Siaya , Kitui, Embu, Makueni, Machakos, Nakuru, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Kisii, Nyamira, Tharaka-Nithi, Kericho, Uasin-Gishu, Kirinyaga , Trans-Nzoia, Nandi, Mombasa and Bomet.

A total of 1,052,364 candidates sat for the KCPE 2018 examinations with 527,294 (50.1%) being boys while 525,070 (49.9%) were girls.

Female candidates also performed better than their male counterparts in English, Kiswahili and Kenyan Sign Language with the Male candidates performing better in Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Religious Studies.

The Education CS also noted that this year candidates with special needs did better than last year with the top candidate scoring 446 marks.

Do you think that it is time the government invested on adult education?

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