Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu disclosed that over 9000 candidates who missed this year’s KCPE exam will sit special test in January.
Education Cabinet Secretary, Ezekiel Machogu, has announced that candidates who missed the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) will have a chance to sit a special examination in January 2024, ensuring no one from the final 2023 cohort misses Form One admission.
“To ensure that no candidate misses out in joining Form One from the final 2023 KCPE examination cohort, the Ministry of Education will conduct through 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,” said today
During the release of examination results at the new Kenya National Examination Council headquarters in South B on Thursday, Machogu revealed that 9,354 candidates failed to take their exams.
Furthermore, Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang assured timely payment for KCPE examiners and vowed to ensure the same for KCSE markers.
“We have paid all our examiners of 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,” Kipsang said.
As stated by Kipsang, the Ministry is currently collaborating with the National Treasury to expedite first-term capitation payments for a smooth school reopening in January 2024.
This follows the successful administration of exams, with 1.4 million undertaking KCPE and 1.2 million siting the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) exams, marking the transition to the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).
