Abstract
Physics is one of the science subjects taught in Kenyan secondary schools in the current 8-4-4 system of education. Students undertake training for a period of four years in the secondary school phase and are examined through the summative examination known as the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). To ascertain the level of preparedness by the candidates for the final exam, teachers issue a preparatory examination at the end of the second term of the fourth year. This study sought to investigate the relationship between grades obtained by students in Physics in KCSE Exam and preparatory exam. The research was conducted in Makueni County using National and Extra County schools. It was assumed that the preparatory exam was comprehensive and was done in conditions similar to those of the KCSE. The study used Ex Post Facto research design in which physics results from 2016 to 2018 were obtained and analysed. Descriptive statistics were used in checking the objectives whereas inferential statistics was used in testing the hypotheses. From the study, it was observed that students performed better in KCSE examination than in the preparatory examination. However, there was no significant difference in performance in physics between students in National schools and those in Extra County schools in KCSE. It was also found that there was no significant difference in physics performance in preparatory exam in National and in Extra County schools. From the study, preparatory exam lead to good grades in physics in KCSE thus it was recommended that students should be exposed to two or more preparatory examinations so as to improve on the mean score in the final examination. It was further recommended that schools of the same level should do benchmarking of the preparatory examination for this could help bridge the large gap between the grades in preparatory exams and those obtained in KCSE.
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