By JULIUS SIGEI jsigei@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Wednesday, December 28 2011 at 19:33
Posted Wednesday, December 28 2011 at 19:33
Science was the best performed subject in last year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education.
The subject, which recorded a mean score of 67.48 per cent, was followed by Religious Studies at 62.45 per cent.
Social Studies was another highly performed subject with a mean score of 56.32 per cent.
This is the second time in a row that Science was recording a good performance, with the subject having made a mean of 60.86 in 2010.
Kiswhahili Lugha was the least performed at a mean score of 41. 46 per cent down from 52.76 last year.
It was followed by English Composition at 42.45 per cent. Social Studies dropped from 64.93 last year to 56.32 this year.
Mathematics dropped by one point to record 52.18 down from last year’s 53.80. The performance in English language dropped from 49.12 to 47.10 per cent.
There was, however, an improvement in the performance of Kiswahili Insha which recorded 54.68 up from 50.34.
There was, however, an improvement in the performance of Kiswahili Insha which recorded 54.68 up from 50.34.
Religious Studies also recorded an improvement of 2.38 with the score of 62.45 per cent.
Girls performed better than boys in English Composition and Kiswahili Insha papers in the KCPE examination results released yesterday by Education minister Sam Ongeri.
In the English Composition, girls scored an average of 44.20 per cent compared to boys’ score of 40.80 while in Kiswahili Insha the girls scored an average of 56.83 per cent against the male score of 52.68.
Boys, however, did better in all the other subjects. Overall, girls’ performance in the languages compared to the boys is a drop from last year’s scores in which they beat the boys in English and Kiswahili Language and Composition papers.
Boys continued to do better in Maths, Science, Social Studies and Religious Studies.
Prof Ongeri attributed the drop in the two languages to the speaking of Sheng, (an urban language which combines English and Kiswahili) and accused politicians of contributing to the poor performance.
Quoting a recent ranking which placed Kenya behind Tanzania, Seychelles, Mauritius and Swaziland in literacy, the minister said the drop was a matter of concern.
“Our suspicion is the adulteration of our Kiswahili and even English where every senior member of our society including top politicians speak Sheng to endear themselves to the youth,” he said.
He said while this has short gains, it seems to translate itself in drop in quality of the children’s performance in Kiswahili and English.
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