KCSE 2024: Identical Twins Score Grade A

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Twins Will and Wayne Isanda score identical grades at KCSE, January 9, 2025.
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Identical twins Will Emmanuel Isanda and Wayne John Isanda defied the odds and overcame their circumstances to achieve identical A grades in the recently concluded Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examinations (KCSE).

As the country celebrates the success stories of candidates who have excelled in the exams, Will and Wayne are among those being celebrated. The twins, Alliance Boys High School alumni, earned an A grade with 82 points.

The twins have consistently defied the odds since the COVID-19 pandemic, when they excelled in their KCPE exams at Imperial Primary School in Kisii, scoring 415 and 412 marks, respectively. They joined Alliance in 2021.

At the start of their secondary education, the boys faced a major setback after losing their mother to rheumatoid arthritis. However, this tragedy did not deter them from pursuing their dreams.

A file image of the entrance to Alliance High School
A file image of the entrance to Alliance High School
Alliance High School

" We were just as successful in the KCPE when the tragedy of losing our mother hit us. But we had to be strong and excel for her. We made a mantra for ourselves that every time we experience disaster, we recover our master," Will said.

Will and Wayne are not strangers to success, they have always been scoring excellent and identical results since form one. Everyone including their teachers always wondered how the two were able to score the same grades.

"We don't know how, there are times the results just tie, like this time around, both of us got an A of 82 points. It is shocking, and teachers always ask us how is this possible, and we tell them it's just a twin thing," Wayne asserted.

According to their aunt, their success does not come as a shock, she tagged them as hard workers who deserve the grades they got.

"It was not by luck, it was a lot of hard work. You go to sleep at midnight, you leave them revising, you wake up at 3 a.m you find them revising," Judie Kaberia, the aunt said.

To ensure they both succeed, the boys made sure they kept each other in check, including waking each other up and helping each other revise.

As they are optimistic about delving into the world after the exams, the boys want to pursue neurology and cardiology respectively as they seek to mark their spot in the world.

Wayne and Will are part of the  1,693 candidates who scored an overall A grade in the exams that saw 962,512 candidates sit for the examinations.

Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba during a stakeholders forum at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development in Nairobi on December 19, 2024.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba during a stakeholders forum at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development in Nairobi on December 19, 2024.
Ministry of Education