KCSE Exam Marking Begins, Students Placement Set For June.
Exam scripts for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) will be marked starting today.
Prof George Magoha, Cabinet Secretary for Education, stated that KCSE marking will follow strict and meticulous guidelines to ensure exam integrity.
Prof Magoha stated that the exercise will take place in 35 locations and will be completed in two weeks to allow candidates to transfer to colleges and vocational institutions.
According to University Education and Research Principal Secretary Simon Nabukwesi, KCSE candidates will begin enrolling in universities as early as June of this year.
Entry into vocational institutions, according to Mr Nabukwesi, will begin in September.
“The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) will start placing the candidates in the institutions immediately the KCSE results are released. There will be no waste of time. Candidates will be picked to join universities in early June,” said Mr Nabukwesi when he inspected exam distribution in Nakuru.
According to the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC), 831,015 candidates registered for the 2021 KCSE examination, which will be held in 10,413 centers.
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Exam malpractices were reported in several parts of the country during the administration of the written examination.
The CS, on the other hand, maintained that no exam papers were leaked and that there were only attempts to aid cheating, in which some examination officials photographed question papers after retrieving them from the containers.
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Prof Magoha also assuaged secondary school principals’ concerns about an alleged plot by KNEC officials to ‘boost’ candidates’ grades after marking.
The CS revealed that some officials were collaborating with some principals to provide students’ data in order for them to ‘improve’ their grades.
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KCSE Exam Marking Begins, Students Placement Set For June
