The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has issued clarification on a case where a student was reported to have scored a D- grade in biology in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) despite having passed on.
According to reports circulated online, the student passed away before the KCSE exams in 2023.
However, reports indicated that the examination council released his results with the grades of all other subjects missing except in Biology where he had a D-.
The results shared belonged to a student whose overall grade was indicated as a ‘U’. The results shared also indicated that the student studied at Nyabondo High School.
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Details of Reports on the Dead Student Scoring D-
Jerome Ogola, a user on X shared the results while expressing his disappointment in the Kenyan education system and the authorities in charge.
Ogola also questioned the credibility of KNEC and that of the overall national results released by the Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu.
“This boy reportedly died before KCSE exams began, but somehow he resurrected, sat the biology paper and scored a D-, maybe because he couldn’t revise in the grave because of darkness.
“KNEC is a scam. The only thing that works efficiently in this country is corruption. The country is in the hands of quacks,” Ogola said in his post, sparking reactions from Kenyans.
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KNEC Issues Response to the Reports
On the other hand, the national examination council on Friday, January 12, refuted the reports that were making rounds online including on TikTok.
KNEC reshared the post with a red ‘Fake’ stamp on the results.
Also, the examination body indicated that it was fake news, failing to issue any additional details on the matter.
This added to the list of many other questionable results that had been shared online since the official release of the national exams that were flagged as fake news by the commission.
Some of these includes posts of lists ranking best performing schools and individual results of schools.
“This is to remind the public that KNEC does not rank schools or candidates in national examinations,” one of the flagged posts indicated.
