A teachers union now wants results for all the 574,125 candidates who sat last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE)
examinations recalled immediately.
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) says after several days of investigations and consultation with examiners deployed to administer
and mark the examinations, it is
convinced that due process was not followed in marking and releasing of the 2016 results.
The union leadership argues that the results released last month do not reflect the true performance of the candidates, citing clear breaches of marking processes that were overlooked by the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec)…
The union claims that only one grading system was used across all subjects, condemning one group of candidates to mass failure.
“Credible information that one uniform grading system was applied in all subjects is a disaster in itself and an action that must be reversed. (This) has disadvantaged the mathematics and science students thereby disadvantaging male candidates who traditionally in many schools opt to take three sciences and mathematics,” reads the letter.
Knut argues that the fact that of those who scored C+ and above, some 50,000 were girls and 38,000 boys explains the flaw.
Disadvantaged boys
“It (single grading system) has advantaged the humanities which is the main choice of girls. It is no surprise that no student scored grade A in English and this definitely is going to affect our students willing to join international universities,” reads the letter.
if this is true then kuna chida mahali. Huwezi weka A iwe 80 kwa Physics na Chem ama Maths
Speaking yesterday, Sossion said the union will ESCALATE the matter should the government fail to ACT to save the FUTURE GENERATION.
Na uache kumtusi @gashwin nyang’au…utapewa kazi ya kufyeka momo…ohhh sorry, I meant compound ya Ktalk academy of high achievers.
schools were being torched and they sat back and watched…how do they expect A’s from students who spent better part of the term at home with high expectations of leakage material to circulate during the exams…