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KCPE Results Will Not Be Released This Week; Here Is The New Date

BY Getrude Mathayo · November 22, 2023 04:11 pm

On Tuesday, Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu said that learners who sat the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam will receive their results any time next week.

According to Machogu, the marking of the exam papers is already complete. He added that the government is also planning to carry out Form 1 Placement over the Christmas period to allow parents enough time to plan themselves.

“We have done the marking and it is finished we are going to release the KCPE exams anytime next week and most likely we will also be able to conduct the Form One placement before Christmas so that they can join Form One by at least the third week of January,” Machogu said.

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Machogu also defended the credibility of the national examinations for both KCPE and KCSE despite widespread cheating reports in various parts of the country that have culminated in various exam administrators being arrested.

He said the early release of the results will allow parents ample time to look for resources for form one admission. CS Machogu claimed that the government had only recorded 6 incidents of exam cheating in the KCPE examinations.

“Even in those six cases, it is not that there was confusion, maybe a pupil being found with a paper that does not resonate with the exams,” Machogu noted.

“So let us say that this time round, we are almost a hundred percent perfect, the results of the exam that will come out, it is the genuine marks that the child was able to get,” the CS noted.

The 2023 cohort was the last to sit the KCPE exams as the ministry works on phasing out the 8-4-4 curriculum.

“We have had the 8-4-4 system for the last 38 years since 1985 and we now phasing out that system. The number of candidates that we had this year was higher than any other year previously 1,415, 315 candidates,” he said.

Education CS also said the government seeks to place 1.4 million students who sat the KCPE in respective secondary schools before Christmas to allow parents time to prepare for Form One admissions.

“Most likely we will be able to conduct the Form One admissions before Christmas and the parents can be able to prepare for their children to join Form One at least on the third week of January,” he stated.

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The KCPE exams which began on October 30 were done alongside the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) exams, undertaken by 1.2 Million candidates, and were completed on November 1, 2023

At least 360,000 candidates sat the KCPE examination for the first time in 1985, ushering in the 8-4-4 system. Close to four decades later, the focus turns to the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), where learners will be assessed through a new education system, CBC