When the results of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) are released, pupils who score lows of 100 marks are often condemned as thick. There is no future for them.
In fact, taking them to day secondary schools in their neighbourhoods is seen as an opportunity for them to mature up before they face the world. It is never an opportunity to learn and improve their lives academically.
This is a myth that one girl from Mandera disputed and proved wrong. The girl, Najma Mohamed had scored 113 marks in when she sat for her KCPE.
This did not discourage her parents from enrolling her for secondary school. And in the 2021 KCSE results that were released in April 2022, Najma scored an impressive grade of B Plain.
Najma Mohamed was the most improved student in Kenya. She was from Banisa Mixed Day Secondary School in Mandera.
She was followed by Kelvin Njoroge who scored 207 marks in KCPE and improved to B plain in KCSE. Maina Mwendwa who sored 211 in KCPE got a mean grade of B Plain.
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Sharon Cheptoo who scored 267 in KCPE managed a grade of A Minus. Sharwiza Isaac who had scored 244 scored a grade of B Plain.