Top 10 Candidates in KCPE 2022 Results

The results of the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations were released on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 by Education CS Ezekiel Machogu.

Over 1,244,188 pupils sat for the national examinations, which began on November 18, with the best student obtaining 431 marks.

In contrast to prior years, Education CS Machogu did not read the top ten KCPE candidates’ names. Nevertheless, independent media reports indicate that Otieno Lewis Omondi of St. Peter’s Mumias Primary and Kwaro Makokha Robinson of Christ The King Academy Bungoma emerged top in KCPE nationally with 431 marks each.

Highlights of 2022 KCPE Results

As the Ministry of Education phased down the 8-4-4 curriculum, the 2022 KCPE exam is the second-last of the exams.

• The pre-Covid school calendar will be reintroduced beginning in January 2023.
• 39 candidates with special needs scored 400 marks and above compared to only two in 2021.
• A total of 9,443 candidates scored 400 marks and above
• 300,756 candidates scored between 300 and 399 marks.
• 616,593 candidates scored between 200 and 299 marks.
• 296,236 candidates scored between 100 and 199 marks.
• Only 724 students scored less than 100 marks in the 2022 KCPE exams.
• English and Kiswahili recorded the most improvement as compared to the 2021 KCPE scores.
• Over 1.2 million candidates took the exam and are scheduled to start secondary school.
• 620, 965 of these candidates were boys representing 50.32%; 612, 887 candidates were girls, representing 49.7%.
• The exam was administered in 28,408 centres around the country.
• 147 candidates took their exams in hospitals.
• 252 candidates in 9 examination centres were found to have engaged in examination malpractices. The said candidates have scored zero in subjects where they were found to have engaged in examination malpractices but will get overall marks from the other subjects. CS Machogu says, KNEC will nevertheless place them all in secondary schools.