Schools, teachers and education stakeholders can now access detailed analyses of the 2025 Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations following the release of feedback reports by the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC).
The reports provide detailed subject-by-subject performance trends, enabling schools and teachers to identify areas where learners performed well and those requiring additional attention.
They also contain official examination statistics, question papers and marking schemes to support institutional assessment, teaching and future academic planning. The KJSEA report further outlines how formative and summative assessment scores were combined to determine learners’ overall performance.
Institutions, teachers and other interested stakeholders can obtain the reports from the KNEC bookshop at New Mitihani House in South C, Nairobi. Orders can also be submitted via email or through KNEC headquarters.
The KJSEA feedback report is divided into three volumes. Volume One covers Languages, Volume Two addresses Mathematics, Science, Agriculture and Pre-Technical Studies, while Volume Three focuses on Humanities, Creative Arts and Sports. Question papers and marking schemes for individual learning areas are available separately at a fee.
A total of 1,130,459 candidates took the 2025 KJSEA, comprising 578,630 boys and 551,829 girls.
Learners were assessed using an eight-point scale and classified into four performance categories: Exceeding Expectations, Meeting Expectations, Approaching Expectations and Below Expectations.
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The assessment incorporated both national summative examinations and school-based assessments.
Overall, 75 per cent of learners reached or surpassed the Approaching Expectations level across the assessed learning areas.
Girls recorded stronger performance than boys in 10 of the 12 assessed areas, with particularly notable differences in Kiswahili and Christian Religious Education (CRE).
Hindu Religious Education recorded the highest proportion of learners meeting or exceeding expectations at 84.62 per cent, followed by Integrated Science at 61.77 per cent and Social Studies at 58.56 per cent.
Mathematics and Kenyan Sign Language recorded the weakest performance, with 32.44 per cent and 22.14 per cent of learners respectively meeting expectations.
The Grade 9 competency results also showed that the STEM pathway had the highest learner eligibility potential at 59.09 per cent. Arts and Sports followed at 48.73 per cent, while Social Sciences stood at 46.52 per cent.
2025 KCSE Performance
Meanwhile, 993,226 candidates sat the 2025 KCSE examinations, with 1,932 achieving straight As.
Girls made up 50.46 per cent of the candidates, equivalent to 501,214 learners, while boys accounted for 49.54 per cent, or 492,012 candidates.
A total of 270,715 candidates, representing 27.18 per cent of the cohort, attained the minimum university entry grade of C+ and above.
Another 507,131 candidates, equivalent to 50.92 per cent, scored C- or higher. This marked the first time in 10 years that more than half of the KCSE cohort achieved the grade.
Meanwhile, 634,082 candidates, representing 63.67 per cent, attained D+ or higher.
Performance improved in 17 subjects compared with 2024, while 11 subjects recorded declines.
Boys outperformed girls in 11 subjects, including Mathematics, Biology and Chemistry, while girls recorded better results in six subjects, among them English and Kiswahili.
KNEC cancelled the results of 1,180 candidates over examination irregularities.
The KCSE feedback report is published in four volumes. Volume One covers Languages, Volume Two covers Mathematics and Sciences, Volume Three focuses on Humanities, while Volume Four addresses Technical subjects.
Individual question papers and marking schemes are also available separately for each subject at a fee.