The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has urged Kenyans wishing to repeat their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations to do so by 2027.
Addressing delegates during the release of the 2024 KCSE exams, KNEC Chief Executive Officer (CEO) David Njengere revealed that only three chances were available for those who wish to resit the tests.
According to the KNEC boss, the final KCSE examinations will be administered for the next three years, 2025, 2026 to 2027, with potential candidates required to register before the window closes.
“I wish to remind the public that the last KCSE examinations will be administered in 2027 and therefore we invite any person who wishes to repeat either partial or full examinations to take advantage of the three chances,” Njengere revealed.
KNEC CEO David Njengere speaking during the Inaugural Annual Symposium on Competency-Based Assessment on April 24, 2024.
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The KNEC CEO further emphasised that candidates planning to sit the 2025 Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA) and KCSE exams would be allowed to register for the tests from February 17.
Njengere explained that the examinations council would begin registering this year’s Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) candidates on January 27.
While appraising the public about last year’s KCSE examinations, the KNEC CEO disclosed that there were no recorded cases of early exposure of the exam papers to students.
“Double collection of first and second session papers was successful and this helped eliminate the challenge of early exposure a few centres used to engage in. I can confirm that last year, we did not have a single case of early exposure of the second-session papers,” Njengere said.
Njengere also announced that KNEC had developed and uploaded sample papers for the Kenya Junior School Education Assessment. According to him, the papers were available on the KNEC portal.
Reiterating his sentiments, Njengere warned parents and students against purchasing the papers from anyone as they were freely accessible on the council’s portal.
According to him, the council will also be sending online questionnaires to KJSEA candidates through their schools to get their feedback about the papers.
“I want to reiterate that these papers are free, I know there are enterprising Kenyans that will download the papers and start selling to schools. These papers are free,” Njengere cautioned.
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) offices in Nairobi.
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