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    "content": "When they are marked, the grading is from Grade A to Grade E. Grade A, in terms of points, has 12 points. A- (Minus) has 11 points; B+(Plus) has 10 points; B (Plain) has nine points; B-(Minus) has eight points; C+(Plus) has seven points; C (Plain) has six points; C- (Minus) has five points; D+ (Plus) has four points; D (Plain) has three points; D- (Minus) has two; and E has one point. This candidate, Mr. Githanja, had D (Plain) in English. That one has three points. He had D-(Minus) in Kiswahili and that is two points. In Mathematics, D-(Minus), two points. Those are compulsory subjects and they must be taken into consideration when we are compiling the mean grade. When compiling the mean grade we use seven best subjects for the candidates. Compulsory subjects must be included irrespective of the grade. In Group two, we take the best two subjects. In Group one, we take all the three subjects. In that case, he had a D- in Biology and a D- in Chemistry. Each one of them is two points. In Group three, we always consider one subject. In Humanities, he had a D in Geography, which is three points. Among the industrial subjects, he had a D in Agriculture. That gave him a D in three subjects. The candidate took eight subjects, but we calculate the mean grade using the seven best subjects. Among the seven best, three compulsory subjects must be included even if they were the worst. He had 3 marks for English, 2 for Kiswahili, 2 for Mathematics, 2 for Biology, 2 for Chemistry, 3 for Geography and 3 for Agriculture. That means that he had a total of 17 points for the seven subjects. So, you divide 17 by 7 and you get 2.428. The rule is that we round the figure to the nearest whole number, which is two. The letter grade for two is D-. So, this gentleman had a mean grade of D-."
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