The 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams top candidate scored 428 marks out of a possible 500.
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu announced the results on Thursday November 23, 2023.
This last KCPE exam as the Ministry of Education phases out the 8-4-4 curriculum to be fully replaced by a Competence Based Curriculum (CBC).
Out of the over 1.4 million candidates that sat for the exam, only 8,525 candidates were able to score 400 marks and above with 352,782 students scoring between 300 and 399 marks.
The majority of pupils scored between 200 to 299 with 658,278 candidates falling into that category.
383,025 candidates scored between 100 to 199 marks with the rest of the candidates scoring below 100 marks.
The national examination had minimum malpractice with only two pupils out of 1.4 million candidates engaging in exam irregularity.