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Thursday 29 December 2011
TOP 100 STUDENTS IN RIFT VALLEY
Overall KCPE grades decline for yet another year
Rift Valley districts put up a strong performance in this year’s exams, taking half of the top 50 national slots, according to results released on Tuesday.
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| KNEC 2010 KCPE Order of Merit App D 2010 - ALL |
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The private schools also took the lion’s share in the top 100 positions.
This is the most glaring pointer that while the free learning programme succeeded in enrolling many pupils in school, it also risked locking out children of the poor from elite public secondary schools because of declining performance of government-sponsored primary schools.
The Rift Valley’s 24 districts, some of them arid and semi-arid, were ranked among the top 50.
Kirinyaga Central was ranked the best in the country.
Overall, the results released by Education minister Sam Ongeri also exposed a more serious issue — the big drop in the highest marks attained by the best candidate.
The joint best candidates, Linus Muchiri Ngatia from Central province (The Trinity School in Maragua) and Rift Valley’s Collins Kiprop Metto (Moi Kabarak in Nakuru), scored 434 marks, four fewer than last year’s top candidate. Peter Kamenju Njoroge of Lily Academy in Thika scored 438 marks last year.
But that performance still attracted criticism because in 2008, the best candidate had scored 460 marks.
For the second year running, Prof Ongeri did not dwell on the reason for the decline in top marks achieved, instead choosing to concentrate on modest improvement in some subjects.
Third was Eleanor Matindi Karungari of Bethlehem Primary School in Ruiru, Central Province, with 433 marks out of 500 marks. She tied with Nyanza’s Rabin Ochieng of St Peter’s Cape View in Kisumu.
Fifth was Patrick Mumo Mutuku (Kathonzweni AIC, Makueni), Winnie Gatiria (Marion Preparatory) and Oprah Omeka Nyang’ate (Set Greenhill Academy, Kisii) all scored 432 marks.
Three other candidates, Michael Maina Njogu (Bethlehem Primary, Ruiru), Faith Kwamboka Gichaba (Marion Preparatory) and Wilbur Omae Nyabuto (Little Lambs) scored 431 marks to complete the top 10 listing.
All the top 10 places were taken up by private schools, a pointer that the slide of public schools in the national examinations was real.
Among the top 100 national candidates, only 26 were from public primary schools.
There are 121 candidates ranked in the top 100 since many of them tied.
In the regions, Rift Valley districts dominated the top 50 spots, taking 12 of the top 20 positions.
In the top 10, the region produced six districts in the ranking that was reintroduced for the first time in more than three years.
But Kirinyaga Central District, with a mean score of 282.13 marks, was the best in the exams.
It was followed by Eldoret Municipality with a mean score of 280.28 and Kajiado North 279.11.
Samburu North was ranked fourth, while Mumias, Keiyo South, Kitale Municipality and Makueni were ranked fifth, sixth and seventh respectively.
Nandi East from the Rift Valley and Makindu District from Eastern Province wrapped up the top 10. Nationally, there were 53 girls among the top 100 compared to 69 for boys.
Among the top 15 positions, girls took eight.
At the Coast, there were more girls, 57, in the top 100 compared to 44 boys, meaning girls did better in the examinations.
The gender gap fell in Central Province where girls and boys produced 52 candidates each in the top 100.
Girls were poorer in Eastern Province where there were only 35 girls against 70 boys in the top 100.
In Nairobi and Rift Valley provinces, there were 50 girls and 58 boys in the top 100.
Prof Ongeri welcomed the declining gender gap, saying we were nearing parity.
The minister said more girls than boys sat the exam in Central, Eastern and Nairobi provinces.
“In these provinces, we may need to start worrying about the boy child. I wish to call on the leaders and parents to assist my ministry in changing the attitude towards the boy child education before it becomes a challenge.”
Boys topped in all the provinces except Western and Nairobi.
Despite the drop in the top mark attained by pupils, Prof Ongeri said performance improved in seven out of nine papers.
Girls performed better than boys in English Objective, English Composition, Kiswahili Objective and Kiswahili Composition, but boys dominated the other papers.
Prof Ongeri singled out Kiswahili as the worst performed subject, saying it augured badly for an official national language.
He ordered Education secretary George Godia to conduct an investigation to establish the reason for the poor performance.
Prof Ongeri also ordered that 8,110 candidates who had scored 100 marks or less be allowed to resit the examinations.
The affected candidates could also be allowed to pursue artisan courses in youth polytechnics “so as to improve their competencies”.
Prof Ongeri announced that results of 1,103 candidates had been cancelled due to cheating.
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The region has 256 candidates among the top cream while its nearest challenger, Nairobi Province, has 232 candidates. Central Province follows with 209 candidates in the listing. Western Province had 109 candidates in the ranking followed by Eastern Province with 105.
Nyanza Province, whose performance has been heading to the wilderness over the years, had 82 candidates among the top 1,000 performers followed by the equally low performing Coast Province that had 10 less on the list.
Top candidates
Although Nyanza failed to compete with others in posting candidates among the top candidates, it had 116,923 candidates, compared with Western Province, which had 91,629 but still posted 26 more candidates to the top 1,000 list. Central had 101,881 candidates but had 100 more candidates to the listing.
Rift Valley had 186,157 candidates in the examination, perhaps justifying its big representation among the best performers. There were 128,270 candidates from Eastern Province while North Eastern had the least number of pupils at 10,398.
North Eastern Province did not have a candidate among the top 100, boding badly for the region in terms of sending pupils to national schools. The candidate ranked 1,000, Brian Gitau Njenga, had 412 marks out of the possible 500. Gitau was better than the top candidate from North Eastern Province by two marks.
The province is still likely to send candidates to the 15 national schools, thanks to the affirmative action policy dubbed quota system. Under the system, national schools enrol pupils from each part of the country so they portray a national face.
Because of the system, the schools determine cut-off points varying from district to district with the aim of ensuring parity in the selection. It is, therefore, possible that a candidate in Nairobi with 410 marks will be left out of admission to a national school while one from North Eastern with 360 gets picked.
The same system has been touted by teachers and lobby groups to ensure parity between pupils from public schools and those from private schools when Form One selection begins on January 8. Their argument is that since the free primary education programme was introduced, the performance of public schools has gone down due to large class sizes.
The situation was worsened last year when the government failed to recruit teachers as was the tradition over the previous eight years. Teachers who retired, died or resigned from June 2008 were not replaced, something that heavily strained the remaining teachers.
About 180,000 teachers are handling 8.6 million pupils in primary schools. Coupled with lack of learning and teaching materials, the quality of education has gone down, affecting performance in national examinations, especially in schools where classes have up to 100 pupils.
Most of the candidates in the top 1,000 positions in last year's KCPE were from private schools, meaning majority of them are destined to national schools. And among the top 100 candidates nationally, private schools took 81 slots. The national schools are expected to admit about 3,000 candidates.
Kenya Primary School Heads Association chairman Joseph Karuga is concerned about the fall of former giants such as Olympic and Nairobi primary schools in Nairobi Province, which did not feature on the top 100 candidates' list. Before the free learning programme, he said, primary schools such as Nyeri primary, Hill School in Eldoret and Nairobi's Utawala and Westlands were all top performers.
"We must have a method of admission to Form One which does not disadvantage candidates from public schools who learn under difficult circumstances," he said. He added that private schools were poaching bright pupils from public schools by offering them scholarships and bursaries so they can put these schools in top positions.
The private schools also vet the students so they enrol only a few bright candidates for the exams, making sure their mean scores remain high. Despite the challenges facing public primary schools, Education minister Sam Ongeri did not acknowledge them when he released the KCPE results. All he did was list the "significant investments and interventions in the primary education sector".
"Some of the benefits accruing from the interventions are sustainability of the free primary education programme, which has led to significant increases in enrolment," he said.
Corruption allegations
Smarting from the storm at his ministry touched off by allegations of corruption that many people think will derail the FPE, Prof Ongeri said the programme was "safe and on course". In North Eastern Province, for example, enrolment increased from 3,889 in 2002 to 10,398 last year and in Coast Province, from 29,031 in 2002 to 53,005 last year.
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The results of 1,905 candidates were cancelled over irregularities, an increase from the previous year when there were 1,835 cheats. Prof Ongeri said candidates who cheat would be barred from taking any Knec tests for two years beginning 2010.
He also blamed private schools for unethical exam registration practices, including double registration of candidates. To address the challenge of double registration of candidates in different centres and impersonation, Knec will introduce the use of birth certificate numbers for candidates in order to track the movement of each one of them.
TOP 100 SCHOOL 2010 KCPE
KCPE 2010 EXAM
SUMMARY OF TOP 100 POSITIONS (MALE AND FEMALE) NATIONALLY
NUMBER OF MALE 69 (56.56%)
NUMBER OF FEMALE 53 (43.44%)
TOTAL 122 (100.00%)
TOP 100 POSITIONS (MALE AND FEMALE) NATIONALLY
INDEX NO. NAME SEX TOTAL RANK
208326001 NGATIA LINUS MUCHIRI M 434 1
552115002 METTO COLLINS KIPROP M 434 1
235150001 MATINDI KARUNGARI ELEANOR F 433 3
704230008 OCHIENG RABIN M 433 3
335216002 MUTUKU PATRICK MUMO M 432 5
401190002 MATUMO WINNIE GATIRIA F 432 5
703142001 NYANG'ATE OPRAH OMEKA F 432 5
235150005 NJOGU MAINA MICHAEL M 431 8
401190001 GICHABA FAITH KWAMBOKA F 431 8
401519001 WERE NAVY SILAS M 431 8
507182001 NYABUTO WILBUR OMAE M 431 8
401312003 MWANGI SAMUEL GACHANJA M 430 12
602173001 WEKESA NAKHUMWA WENDY F 430 12
602184001 NYANDAYA EDMOND OMWARE M 430 12
214133003 KARIUKI JOHN NJOROGE M 429 15
217220001 NYAMWEYA JAMES ISAAC M 429 15
401276001 KIMATHI WAITHERA STACEY F 429 15
538201001 NYABUTI CATHERINE L MORAA F 429 15
603023003 ADIKA TREVOR LUVAI M 429 15
702047001 TAMBO FIONA HELLEN F 429 15
106507006 WAMBU RAYMOND GACHUNGI M 428 21
214133001 MACHARIA RAPHAEL THUMBI M 428 21
304229001 KARIUKI DAN MURAGE M 428 21
401180001 KABARE GLORIA SHANI F 428 21
557224001 PRESTIGIACOMO TAMARA F 428 21
202104002 GITAHI BRIAN MWANGI M 427 26
230313001 MUGO GERALD MUNGAI M 427 26
235150030 OMBWARA KAVOLE JUSTIN M 427 26
401157002 OWINO GLADYS ADHIAMBO F 427 26
557323002 MUGAMBI BILHAH SIAMANDA F 427 26
617220002 AYUMAH STAYCIE F 427 26
617220003 SHIEYO ANYANGO MAUREEN F 427 26
705207001 APIYO FRANK M 427 26
202102001 NDONGA MERCY WANJIRU F 426 34
214133002 MACHEL ROY STEPHEN M 426 34
232319003 KARANJA DAVID NGUNDA M 426 34
235211001 KYOVI BERTTILA KITHIA F 426 34
401274003 MURERWA REBECCA NDUMBA F 426 34
401347004 MBWELE MWENDWA M 426 34
537234001 OUMA WILLIAM NYAMWEMBE M 426 34
537333001 ELABONGA YVONNE ATUO F 426 34
603023008 KIPRUTO BRIAN SUM M 426 34
704333002 RUGAR CLARENCE OTIENO M 426 34
202101001 GITAHI JUDY ANN WANJIKU F 425 44
202104004 MUGA KEVIN KAMAU M 425 44
202104009 KINYUA ESTHER NJOKI F 425 44
210111002 KIMANI EVERLYNE WANJIRU F 425 44
231128001 MUKUHE GEORGE MUTURI M 425 44
304229002 NTURIBI KENNETH MUTETHIA M 425 44
308114001 MUNENE DEOGRATIOUS M 425 44
401130001 NYAGA BARBARA WARUI F 425 44
401347005 MUKWANA HAKIM WANGATIA M 425 44
536230001 GITONGA PAUL DAVID M 425 44
537228001 OPONDO CALVIN OCHIENG M 425 44
553122002 LANGAT KIPTOO BRIAN M 425 44
553122004 CHEROTICH FAITH F 425 44
603023009 DON JAVAN TABU M 425 44
603023027 CHAGUSIA M BONVENTURE M 425 44
704230003 OTIENO JAMES LLOYD M 425 44
710373001 OUMA DAVID OCHOLA M 425 44
717267003 AKINYI SHARON ODEK F 425 44
728103005 NDEMO N ERASTUS M 425 44
106143002 AMRAAN NAIMA NYENGO F 424 63
206038011 MACHARIA ELIAS MWANGI M 424 63
210315001 NDIRANGU KURIA MARTIN M 424 63
211419001 MUNGAI ERIC MBURU M 424 63
235203012 MAHIANYU ANGELA WAKIRANGI F 424 63
401274004 ONDUSO BERTHA S KHAKASA F 424 63
401493001 BARASA FRANCIS WANDERA M 424 63
557128001 MWANGI ROSE WANGITHI F 424 63
603023059 ANDERA BILLY WAFULA M 424 63
703142002 MISIANI PAUL NYABUTO M 424 63
106131001 GITONGA PETER WACHIRA M 423 73
202103004 GITHINJI DONMOSES THIGITI M 423 73
204246004 MWANGI LAURYN WANJIKU F 423 73
220114001 MAINA NJOKI IVY F 423 73
230414001 ORENGO JAPHETH LENNY WEDA M 423 73
231231001 GACHIE DUNCAN MUKABI M 423 73
234111002 WAIRIA BRENDA WAMBUI F 423 73
235207019 MACHARIA BRADON GAATHE M 423 73
237059001 MAINA ALEX NGARI M 423 73
304229003 KIRUNGU CALVIN MNGATANA M 423 73
310317011 MULU JOY MWENDE F 423 73
319334002 RIUNGU PRAISE MUTUGI M 423 73
330108015 SITATI AUSTIN MUSUYA M 423 73
523338001 JELAGAT MERCY F 423 73
536226001 MWITHALIE VINCENT MURITHI M 423 73
537222001 KUURA PETER MUGAMBI M 423 73
537222003 MUTINDA CASTROL MUTINDA M 423 73
538201007 LANGAT SHEILA CHEROP F 423 73
602183001 BARASA M PHILIP M 423 73
603023012 AYOTI CHRISTINE MIKAL F 423 73
603023016 ACHOLLA JUANITA MAIMA F 423 73
733229001 ODERO ANYANGO MARGARET F 423 73
106418003 MWARUTA DAVIS MGHENDI M 422 95
106507001 KAPANGA E NASIMIYU F 422 95
202101008 NDIGIRIGI C WANJIKU F 422 95
202104010 MUHIA ROXANAL MUTHONI F 422 95
203425023 KIRIMI SHALON GAKII F 422 95
210224001 MUTHUI CLAIRE WAGITHI F 422 95
230405001 GATHURA TERESIA WAMBUI F 422 95
232319001 MWAI BEATRICE MUGURE F 422 95
235211003 MUTURI ALEXANDER KINYUA M 422 95
301175001 KIOKO DANIEL KITHEKA M 422 95
303119001 MUEMA EDWIN MWAI M 422 95
304229004 MWANGI JOY MWIHAKI F 422 95
307129001 MUTUA FESTUS MUEMA M 422 95
310317002 MUNUVE AMOS NDETO M 422 95
330108018 OTIENO G MUJIZA F 422 95
335216001 MUSYOKA DENNIS NGEWA M 422 95
341211006 MWANGI BERNICE M NYAMBURA F 422 95
401063003 MUKUNG DAISY M'TUWA F 422 95
401284020 ORONY JOYCE YUGI F 422 95
401351002 GITONGA TREVOR M 422 95
401444005 WAITHAKA VANESSA WAITHERA F 422 95
536230002 WANJOHI RYAN GITONGA M 422 95
537222010 KENEI CINDY CHEMUTAI F 422 95
555106001 MANYEGA ANNAH NYAKERARIO F 422 95
603023007 DESMOND KIM ODERA M 422 95
702040003 AUSTIN GILBERT OMONDI M 422 95
703142004 AWUOR RICKY F 422 95
720115003 MONGARE ORANGO PHINEHAS M 422 95
SUMMARY OF TOP 100 POSITIONS (MALE AND FEMALE) NATIONALLY
NUMBER OF MALE 69 (56.56%)
NUMBER OF FEMALE 53 (43.44%)
TOTAL 122 (100.00%)
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