For many people, a grade of D Minus in a national examination is interpreted as failure. There is really nothing to smile about this grade, which is just shy of the lowest grade of E! But this is the grade that has sent Kipkenyo Member of County Assembly David Kimeli Leting into wild celebrations.
The MCA went into wild celebrations after scoring the mean grade of D- (Minus) in the 2024 KCSE exams. It was not a grade he had been expecting to score. Apparently, the MCA was expecting to score an E!
Results showed that he had an E in mathematics, a D Minus in KCSE Kiswahili and CRE papers. He then scored an E in Geography, Chemistry, and English. He surprisingly scored a C- (Minus) in Biology.
Puzzle of 161 students in national schools who scored mean grade E
“I am ahead of over 480 candidates who have already wasted 15 years to go to school. I have never gone to any school, even a tuition,” he said.
“In Biology, I scored C Minus and nobody here received C Minus because studies are very difficult. When I saw that Kiswahili was not bad, I told myself I would get an E Plus but many told me that it was not an available grade, but I put in more effort and was so proud of scoring D Minus.”
Leting said that he dropped out of nursery school in 1970. In 2020, he sat for his KCPE exams and scored 150 marks out of the possible 500. “There was a time when they said that all MCAs need to have a KCSE Certificate to qualify to be an MCA. Right now, there is nothing they can tell me,” he said.
