The Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) was expected to ease the learners' scramble for examination scores by placing more focus on skills and competencies.
However, draft proposals by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) show that the battle for higher grades will not be going anywhere soon.
This is how the PWPER has proposed to have learners tested:
The Grade Six assessment will not determine whether or not the learner will proceed to junior secondary school.
Learners in grades nine and 12 will sit for national tests administered by the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec).
The team has proposed that Knec be renamed the Kenya National Assessment Council.
While the initial proposal was to have school-based assessments constitute 60 per cent, there is a proposal to have it at 40 per cent.
This means that learners will just be graded out of 40 per cent for internal tests while the final exams will constitute 60 per cent.
Grade Six
At the end of primary school-grade six- learners will sit the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment to monitor learners' progress at the end of Grade six.
The scores will then be used to determine the pathways for learners.
The national schools will be scrapped and aligned with the subjects they will be offering.
Grade Nine
At grade nine, the end of junior secondary, the learners will sit a final assessment just like the Kenya Certificate of Primary Examinations (KCPE).
However, it will make up 60 per cent of their final score; the remaining 40 per cent will be from assessments at the end of Grades 7 and 8, each making up 20 per cent of their final mark.
At grade nine, the end of junior secondary, the learners will sit a final assessment just like KCPE under 8-4-4.
Grade 12
Learners in senior schools –Grade 12- will have to scramble for 70 per cent in national examinations.
Only 30 per cent will be spared for school-based assessments.
At Grade 12, the end of Senior secondary school, the students will also take a summative examination similar to KCSE.
This will determine their pathways to university, colleges, polytechnic or vocational institutions.
