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KNEC Releases The Official Date For KCSE Rehearsal 2023

BY Getrude Mathayo · October 18, 2023 05:10 pm

The Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC, has released the official date Certificate of Secondary Education examinations, KCSE, rehearsals 2023

The rehearsal is set to start on Thursday, October 19. This comes as preparations for Form 4 candidates who will sit for their national exams from October 23 to November 24 continue.

In a statement, released by KNEC, KPSEA, KILEA, and KCPE will start on October 30 and end on Wednesday, November 1^st. KNEC is expected to engage 1,700 officers to monitor the administration of the exams.

KNEC said that the officers are not only from them but also from other institutions within the education sector. The 2023 KCPE examinations will mark the end of the 8-4-4 system in primary schools.

This year, a total of 903,260 candidates are registered for the KCSE exam across 10,651 examination/assessment centers. There are 1,415,315 KCPE candidates across 28,533 centers, while 1,282,574 are registered for the KPSEA exam across 32,584 centers. Over 3.5 million candidates will sit national examinations with KCPE candidates covering the most soaring number ever recorded in the country.

On Monday and Tuesday, Basic Education Principal Secretary, Belio Kipsang urged the officers to be professionals and committed to ensuring effective and efficient conduct of the assessments and examinations. Kipsang was speaking during a briefing for the monitoring officers held at the KNEC head office at the New Mitihani House

“We play a bigger role than just delivering the examinations, we must also motivate the candidates that this is a process that we all went through and they can also do it successfully,” Kipsang said.

“The PS congratulated Knec for the good work especially last year when the Council transitioned from administering the annual two examinations to the unprecedented five last year as the country stabilized the school calendar after the Covid-19 disruption.”

Principal Secretaries from the Ministry of Education alongside the Council and Executive Management of Knec were in attendance.

This year candidates will sit the last KCPE examination with the primary school education program transitioning fully to the competency-based curriculum (CBC) and competence-based assessment (CBA) from next year.