Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed on Monday afternoon announced a tie in the top candidate score during the 2018 KCPE examinations.
Two candidates tied at the top with 453 marks out of 500 in the tests carried out in three days.
In the 2018 KCPE exams, 527,294 were boys while there were 525,070 female candidates.
CS Amina noted that the performance had improved, with female candidates performing better than males in English, Kiswahili and Kenya sign language.
"It is a directive by President Kenyatta that all the candidates break for Chrismas while knowing the schools they have been selected to...There will be only selection, we will do it once and it shall be done well," stated CS Amina.
The selection process shall kick off on Monday, December 3, 2018.
