Early this week, some parents in one of the schools located in the Nairobi’s Southlands complained of the existence of more than two examination centres.
The Saturday Nation found that whereas the worst performing candidate in the better ranked centre scored 394 marks, its sister centre had the worst performing candidate scoring 290 marks.

Only bright pupils are registered at the centre which was ranked among the top 10.
The aim is to ensure the centre with bright candidates performs well to attract many pupils.
The story is the same in other parts of the country where well-established institutions claim to register less than 50 candidates when they have more than 100.
Some schools that register many pupils end up getting lower averages, although most of their candidates score highly.

Some private school owners registered only one institution yet they had more than one.
“The other unregistered schools operated on the certificate of the pioneer school with a view to avoiding taxation and offloading weak pupils.