89 parents whose children sat KCPE exams at Nyali Primary School have gone to court seeking a re-tallying of their children’s results.
They filed a petition at the Mombasa Law Courts claiming the marks awarded to their children did not reflect their ability or the school’s general performance.
They filed their petition through Jengo and associates advocates claiming they could prove that there was general inaccuracy in the tallying of marks, which affected the integrity of the process.
They said it was important for the examinations agency to do a manual checking of the works of the optical machine as it springs out errors based on the shade marked by the candidate. The parents have contended that Knec, despite being pushed to do the verification and re-tallying of the marks, had refused to oblige.
They are also seeking temporary orders compelling the examinations agency to produce the examination scripts of the children who sat for KCPE in 2016 at Nyali.
They claim after the release of the results this year, the mean score was 337.35, which did not reflect the performance of the school and its pupils in the previous years as it used to range between 388.66 and 386.56 from 2008 to 2015.
