Education CS Ezekiel Machogu has directed the Education Quality Assurance and Standards to find ways of bridging gaps in performance by male and female candidates in specific subjects.
Speaking on Wednesday, December 21, during the release of the 2022 KCPE results at Mitihani House, Nairobi, Machogu said that female students have been performing better in specific subjects than their male counterparts for years.
The CS said that in the 2022 KCPE results, female candidates performed better than their male counterparts in English language, Kiswahili and Kenya Sign language.
On the other hand, Machogu said that male candidates performed better than their female counterparts in Mathematics, Science and Social Studies & Religious Education.
“I wish to direct the quality of assurance and standards to find ways of addressing the gaps that might be causing the performance of either gender as there seems to be a pattern where girls beat boys in specific subjects each year and vice versa,” Machogu said.
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The CS, however, said that the overall performance in the exams improved compared to that of the 2021 KCPE exams.
A total of 1,233,852 candidates sat for the national examination, with 9,443 of those scoring above 400 marks in the test.
The top student in the 2022 KCPE exams scored 431 marks, compared to 428 in 2021.
2022 KCPE Candidates can access their results by sending their index number, followed by the initials KCPE (in capital letters) to 20076.
