There was celebration, song and dance at Riara Group of schools after it was revealed that the school had produced the number one candidate in this year’s KCPE exam.
Olive Mwea Wachira emerged the joint top candidate with 453 marks in this year’s exam. She tied in the first position with Rawlings Odhiambo from Kakamega Hills Academy.
Celebrations at Riara School, Nairobi where top #KCPE2018 girl Olive Mwea who scored 453 out of 500 marks studied pic.twitter.com/4bzN5TSJU2
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) November 19, 2018
The 453 marks is two shy off what last year’s golden girl Goldalyn Kakuya scored in the 2017 exams.
Olive says that she never believed she would be the number one candidate especially, as she had problems in the English and Social Studies subjects.
“I couldn’t believe it at first. But I was really excited after it was confirmed.” Olive told the media on Monday. She said that she wanted to pursue a profession in Pharmacy.
Education CS Amina Mohammed said that, there has been a slight improvement in this year’s performance as more than 12,000 candidates scored above 400 marks.
KCPE began on October 30 and ended on November 1 with around 1.06 million candidates sitting their exams in 27,161 centres.
Girls performed better than boys in English, Kiswahili and Kenya sign language during the 2018 KCPE exam. Boys performed better in Mathematics and science, social and religious studies.
During the 2018 exam, those who scored over 400 marks is 12,273. Those who scored between 301 and 400 are 234,573 while those with over 200 marks up to 300 are 574,927. Those who scored between 0 and 100 were 2,177.
None of the nine KCPE papers was leaked. “Several CSs went around the country to ensure that the exams are done in a credible way. I am proud that we have stumped out dishonesty,” Amina said.
Amina said this year’s KCPE has improved from last year’s performance.
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Knec chairperson George Magoha on November 2, said marking would take three weeks. President Uhuru Kenyatta, Amina, and Magoha have all maintained that the this year’s exam was free of cheating and other malpractices.
This year surprised many with the high number of reported teenage births during the exam period with about 30 reported cases. Quality assurance and standards officers were directed to investigate the pregnancy cases.