KCPE candidates are now in panic mode as they await their results from KNEC. Even though the exam body said that candidates can get their results by sending an SMS their index numbers to 20076, some people have complained that it is not working.
Education CS Amina Mohammed revealed that, majority of the candidates scored between 200 and 300 marks. The number in this category is actually 574,927. This represents more than half of the candidates who sat the exams this year.
And as those who performed well continue to celebrate, some of the candidates maybe scolded by their parents for failing the exams.
But failure is not fatal and especially in KCPE exams, there has been proof that one can overcome the small obstacle and still make it in the field of academia.
Dr. Purity Mwambia is one such story. At 28 years, she is the youngest PhD holder in Kenya. But do you believe she scored 235 marks in KCPE?
Born and raised in Mbiriri village at the foothills of Mt Kenya in Nyeri county, Dr Purity Ngina could not in her wildest dreams imagine that one day she would be Kenya’s youngest Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) graduate.
The last born in a family of two scored 235 marks in her Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examinations. Her late mother, Lydia Ngina, was not amused and prevailed upon her to repeat class eight and work harder. She managed to get 368 marks.
She was admitted to Tumu Tumu High School in Nyeri.
After struggling to pay her school fees throughout high school, she managed to score B+ and was admitted to Egerton University to study for a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.
She was then offered a full scholarship to pursue a Masters in Applied Mathematics after getting First Class honours degree, in 2013.
In 2016, she joined Strathmore University as an assistant lecturer. The German Academic Exchange Service paid her PhD tuition fee.
On June 29, she was among the three doctorate graduates at the Strathmore University.