Out of the total number of candidates that sat the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) 246,391 students have attained direct entry to the university.
The Education Cabinet Secretary Julies Ogamba made the announcement while releasing the 2024, KCSE results.
“The number of candidates with direct university entry qualifications of grade C+ and above is 246,391 which translated to 25.3 percent,” stated the CS.
More candidates qualify for university compared to 2023 KCSE
According to the CS, this was an improvement from the 2023 KCSE whereby 133,000 qualified for university entry translating to 22.27 percent. He attributed the improvement to the new grading system.
A total of 1,693 students attained a grade A in the 2024 KCSE results, which is an improvement from the 1,216 candidates who obtained an A grade in 2023.
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More candidates attained the mean grade that would allow them to join Tvets and Diploma courses in the 2024 KCSE results compared to the 2023 results.
“The number of candidates with grade C minus and above which is Tvets, Diploma and above was 476, 889 which translates to 49.41 percent in the 2024 KCSE examination compared to 401, 216 which is translated to 44.42 percent in 2023,” stated CS Ogamba.
KCSE 2024 saw the largest number of female students
The number of candidates that obtained a pass grade of grade D plus and above was 605,774 which is 62.76 percent in the 2024 KCSE examination compared to 526, 222 that translates to 58.2 percent in 2023.
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The 2024 KSCE examination saw a 64,553 increase in the number of students that sat the exam. In 2024, a total of 965,501 candidates sat the exam while in 2023, 899, 453 students sat the national exam. Out of this 480,310 were male while 482,202 were female.
According to the CS, this year’s KCSE marks the first time, since the inception of the exams that the number of female candidates surpassed the number of male candidates.
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