Education Cabinet Secretary, Ezekiel Machogu, has revealed plans for a special examination in January 2024 for candidates who missed the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE).
The aim is to prevent any student from the final 2023 cohort from missing out on Form One admission.
“To ensure that no candidate misses out on joining Form One from the final 2023 KCPE examination cohort, the Ministry of Education will conduct thorough mapping of any of those who may have failed to sit their examination this year in order to administer a Special Exam in January 2024,” stated the CS.
During the announcement of examination results at the new Kenya National Examination Council headquarters in South B, Machogu disclosed that 9,354 candidates were unable to take their exams.
Additionally, Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang assured timely payment for KCPE examiners and pledged the same for KCSE markers.
“We have paid all our examiners for KCPE marking. We also want to assure my colleagues in KCSE that we shall ensure that they are paid within the time that is required of us to pay,” said Kipsang.
Kipsang mentioned that the Ministry is working with the National Treasury to expedite first-term capitation payments, ensuring a smooth school reopening in January 2024.
This decision follows the successful administration of exams, with 1.4 million candidates taking KCPE and 1.2 million sitting the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) exams, marking the transition to the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).
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