Candidates who sat for their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) will receive their results on Monday morning. The exam results are set to be announced at Moi Girls Eldoret.
According to the Ministry of Education, 903,260 students sat for the examination between November 6 and 23, 2023.
Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu will release the results in Eldoret after a briefing session with the President. The CS will give an account of the preparation, administration, conduct, marking, and moderation of the exams.
This is the first time in five years that the KCSE results have been delayed well beyond the New Year. Since 2016, results have always been released before Christmas. The delay was caused by the extensive verification process of the outcomes following uncertainty that affected the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education.
The Education Ministry announced last week that the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results are set to be announced in the second week of January 2024.
“We are done with the marking. What we are currently doing is compiling the marks, verifying them, and validating them. You know it’s quite a process. So that by the end of the day, we release credible results,” said CS Machogu.
Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu said the 903,260 students who sat for KCSE examinations in November will know their fate in mid-January as 1.4 million 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination candidates will be joining secondary schools.
Candidates this year are also going to benefit from the new grading system, which was unveiled in August and is aimed at increasing the number of students joining universities.
The new grading system is part of the recommendations made by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms and focuses on the subjects that candidates are strong in, reducing the number of compulsory subjects.
This means that the 2023 KCSE candidates will be graded in two compulsory subjects, including math and any language (Kiswahili, English) or Kenyan Sign Language (KSL).
“Previously, compulsory subjects included math, Kiswahili, and English languages, as well as two sciences. But this time around, we will only have two compulsory subjects: Math and English, Kiswahili or KSL. We are doing this to allow learners to explore subjects they are good at.” CS Machogu noted.
