KCSE 2022: How candidates performed in different grade categories

Education CS Ezekiel Machogu during the release of the KCSE exams at Mtihani House. [Samson WIre, Standard]

Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu released the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) at Mtihani House on Friday, January 20.

The event broke the tradition of naming the top performing in the exam, instead, CS Machogu just gave the grade distribution of the exam that was sat by 881,416 candidates of which 443,644 were male and 437,772 females.

Here are how the grades were distributed.

GRADE A

MALE: 875

FEMALE: 271

TOTAL: 1,146

GRADE A minus

MALE: 4,445

FEMALE: 1,962

TOTAL: 6,407

GRADE B plus

MALE: 9,578

FEMALE: 6,104

TOTAL: 15,682

GRADE B

MALE: 17,783

FEMALE: 13,520

TOTAL: 31,303

GRADE B minus

MALE: 27,245

FEMALE: 21,474

TOTAL: 48,719

GRADE C plus

MALE: 36,950

FEMALE: 33,138

TOTAL: 70,088

GRADE C plus

MALE: 45,963

FEMALE: 49,191

TOTAL: 95,154

GRADE C

MALE: 56,469

FEMALE: 62,599

TOTAL: 119,068

GRADE D plus

MALE: 64,783

FEMALE: 70,238

TOTAL: 135,021

GRADE D

MALE: 75,545

FEMALE: 79,935

TOTAL: 155,480

GRADE D minus

MALE: 83,683

FEMALE: 84,075

TOTAL: 167,758

GRADE E

MALE: 18,062

FEMALE: 12,760

TOTAL: 30,822