Kenya's exam council had to come out and explain their new grading system after schools started spreading fake analysis sheets that made it look way more complicated than it actually is. The Kenya National Examinations Council said the junior school assessment under the competency-based curriculum does not use aggregate scores or mean grades like the old 8-4-4 system did, and they told institutions to stop confusing parents with outdated metrics that don't apply anymore.
The new setup grades each subject separately using four performance levels that break down into eight total rankings, ranging from exceeding expectations down to below expectations. The council said this prevents kids from getting dragged down by one weak subject when they're crushing it in others, and it stops schools from obsessing over rankings instead of actually teaching competencies.
The old system let schools compare mean scores and rank students for college placement, but the new framework ditches all that in favor of showing individual strengths without reducing everything to a single number.
The new setup grades each subject separately using four performance levels that break down into eight total rankings, ranging from exceeding expectations down to below expectations. The council said this prevents kids from getting dragged down by one weak subject when they're crushing it in others, and it stops schools from obsessing over rankings instead of actually teaching competencies.
The old system let schools compare mean scores and rank students for college placement, but the new framework ditches all that in favor of showing individual strengths without reducing everything to a single number.
