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"content": "About 942,022 sat the 2016 KCPE examination. Of this, 49.7 percent were girls and 50.3 percent boys. The gender composition has comparatively remained the same over the last three years. The analysis of candidature trends by gender in the last three years indicates that the percentage increase in the number of girls has constantly been higher than that of boys. In terms of counties, nearly half, that is 23 of the regions registered more girls than boys in KCPE Examinations. These counties which I must highly commend are; Mombasa, Nyandarua, Kiambu, Machakos, Kitui, Embu, Meru, Makueni, Nairobi, Trans-Nzoia, Uasin Gishu, Nakuru, Kericho, Nandi, Elgeyo Marakwet, Busia, Bungoma, Kakamega, Vihiga, Kisii, Kisumu and Nyamira. The Government recognizes the right of learners with disabilities as enshrined in the Kenya Constitution, 2010. This year, 1950 candidates with special needs sat the KCPE Examination with the highest candidate scoring 421 marks out of the possible 500. Earlier this year, His Excellency the President Uhuru Kenyatta directed that the Ministry prepares and administers special national examinations papers for candidates with special needs. In order to implement this directive, interventions were put in place in the 2016 National Exams for candidates with special needs. We congratulate the people responsible for field administration. This success would not have been possible without the effort of 168,000 contracted professionals who invigilated and supervised the administration of the examinations and 5000 plus examiners who were involved in the marking of English compositions, Kiswahili and Kenya sign language compositions. I wish to mention that the performance of candidates in this year’s examination was slightly lower than that of 2015. Girls performed better than boys in languages; English, Swahili and Kenya Sign Language, while boys performed better than girls in Mathematics, Science and Social Sciences and Religion. The number of candidates with more than 400 marks decreased by 31 percent to 5,190 compared to 7,560 last years. The top candidate this year scored 436 marks out of the maximum possible 500. That means the candidate would not have placed among the top 90 for last year. This candidate would have been around position 93 compared to last year. During the 2016 KCPE Examinations, candidates obtained aggregate as follows; those who scored 400 were 5,143, a percentage of 0.54 percent. Those who scored 301 to 400 total to 207,141 which is 21 percent. Those who scored between 201 and 300 marks were 501,552. That is more than 52 per cent. Those who had the lowest marks; that is between 101 to 200 were 221,438 accounting for 23.5 per cent. Those who scored 100 and below were 6,747. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as stated earlier concerning examination leakage, I promised during the release of the 2015 examinations that I will not apologies again to Kenyans over leakage in national examination. I wish to categorically state that there was no examination leakage in 2016 KCPE Examination. Regarding examination irregularities, various security measures were put in place during the administration and management of the 2016 KCPE Examinations to help stamp out cheating. I wish to report that all the attempted cases of examination malpractices, totaling to only 21, were detected and dealt with appropriately before they could happen. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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