The 2019 KCPE results have just been released.

Andy Munyiri emerged the best with 440 marks.

The number of candidates who scored 400 marks and above dropped compared to last year.

Candidates can now access their results online in three ways:

HERE ARE IMPORTANT DETAILS AND GUIDELINES ON HOW TO ACCESS KCPE AND KCSE RESULTS

THIS IS HOW YOU CAN RECEIVE OR DOWNLOAD THE 2019 KCPE/ KCSE RESULTS ONLINE OR THROUGH SMS:

The Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC which administers national exams in Kenya is set to release this year’s KCPE and KCSE results after marking.

The KCPE exam which marks the end of Primary level schooling ant facilitates a transition into secondary school is usually administered in October.

KCSE, on the other hand, marks the end of secondary school education and facilitates a transition into tertiary levels of learning such as colleges and universities in Kenya.

FOR MORE EXCLUSIVE NEWS ON UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES, CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW

https://Important Links Ministry of Education, Science & Technology

Education and Training Authority (TVETA) Kenya Government Portal

 

MARKING OF KCPE/KCSE

The KCPE/KCSE exams are marked by trained examiners who undergo KNEC training every year.

The marking of national exams is usually confined to particular marking centres located in Kenya’s nerve centre-Nairobi and its environs.

KCPE is partly marked by examiners-Composition and Insha and Optical Mark Recognition Scanners (OMR).

KCSE examiners are usually trained in April every year.

After marking, the results are analyzed and released by the Education Cabinet Secretary, CS after briefing the President on the results.

DO NOT MISS OUT ON KNEC BREAKING NEWS. BE THE FIRST ONE TO RECEIVE THEM BY CLICKING ON THE LINK BELOW:

https://HOW TO DOWNLOAD 2019 KCPE AND KCSE EXAMS

 

CHECKING OF KNEC RESULTS:

There are three ways through which you can check your results:

1. THROUGH THE KNEC SMS CODE 20076
2. USING THE KNEC ONLINE PORTAL:  knec.ac.ke
3. VISITING YOUR SCHOOL

HOW TO CHECK YOUR KNEC RESULTS USING THE KNEC SMS CODE 20076

This is the fastest and most efficient way of checking KNEC results.

You need to send an SMS with your Index/ Random number to 20076.

This service is available for all the three network service providers in Kenya i.e. Safaricom, Airtel and Telcom.

The cost of a single SMS is Kshs 25.

NOTE: YOU MUST WAIT FOR THE OFFICIAL RELEASE OF THE EXAMS BEFORE SENDING THE SMS.

HOW TO CHECK FOR KNEC KCPE AND KCSE RESULTS USING THE KNEC ONLINE PORTAL

To check your results through KNEC’s online portal, you need your index/random number, internet and a mobile phone or computer.

BELOW IS A SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE:

1. Visit the official KNEC WEBSITE knec.ac.ke
2. Click on the KCSE/KCPE Results tab.
3. Select the year in which you sat for the exams
4. Enter your index number/ random number
5. Click on the ”Submit” button to complete the process.
6. Your results will be displayed on the screen after a while.

Lastly, you can visit your former school to access the results after the official release.

 

 

 

Junior Secondary School Placement 2023; Fee Structure and Uniform

1. CS Machogu; Junior Secondary School Learners to Wear Different School Uniforms
2. CS Machogu; Junior Secondary School Fee is Kshs 15, 000 per year.

Private schools are way ahead in Junior Secondary School registration. According to CS Machogu, over 90% of the schools qualify to domicile junior secondary school. Only a handful public and private schools do not qualify to host junior secondary.

Speaking during the release of placement results in January, learners in junior secondary schools

9.6 billion has been released by the education ministry to ensure a smooth transition to junior secondary.

30, 000 teachers have been posted by the Teachers Service Commission to implement the new Competency Based Curriculum at junior secondary school levels.

Grade 7 learners will have a different uniform from the other learners.

Registration of schools for junior secondary school is ongoing. The exercise began on January 9, 2023 and will end on Friday January 20, 2023. The guidelines being followed in JSS registration encompass;

Ministry of Education registration guidelines for public and private Junior Secondary Schools 2023

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

State Department for Basic Education Directorate of Quality Assurance and Standards

REGISTRATION GUIDELINES CHECKLIST FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS (JSS) 2023.

SECTION A: INTRODUCTION

The interim report of Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms recommended domiciling of JSS in existing Primary Schools. Consequently, His Excellence the President of the Republic of Kenya directed the Ministry of Education (MoE) to develop guidelines to operationalize Junior Secondary Education.

Accordingly, the checklist attached will be used by a multi- agency team composed of officials from the MoE, Ministry of Interior and Teachers’ Service Commission to assess the suitability of Primary Schools to admit JSS learners for the 2023 school year.

Instructions to County Directors of Education

The exercise is scheduled to run from 9^TH – 20^TH JANUARY, 2023.

A MULTI- AGENCY approach is envisaged in the assessment of the schools.

ALL decisions SHOULD be guided by the checklist and school’s final percentage score on the Scoring Guide (Section D).

ALL the participating officers SHOULD sign the filled- in tool for ownership.

A detailed report SHOULD be prepared and submitted to the Director General- Education, by 23^RD JANUARY, 2023. Among others, the report should indicate the:

Readiness of Primary Schools to admit JSS learners; and

Proposed JSS feeder schools, the distance and capacity of the nearest Primary

NOTE:

In the context of the JSS transition, FEEDER SCHOOL refers to a Primary School that lacks the enrollment and/or infrastructural capacity to domicile a JSS. In such cases, the MoE will transfer the learners to a neighbouring JSS or implement appropriate affirmative action to ensure 100 percent transition. Therefore, JSS Feeder Schools will be designated as follows: 

• In high density areas and urban informal settlements Primary Schools with an enrollment of less than 45 learners or those lacking the basic facilities to host a JSS will serve as Feeder Schools to other JSSs within a 2 kilometres proximity.
• In geographically expansive, low density and insecurity prone areas, as well as for learners with special needs and disability, the Government through the MoE will implement affirmative action (as appropriate), regardless of the enrolments.

SECTION B: SCHOOL’S DEMOGRAPHIC DATA

1. Name of School: ………………………………………………………

2.     County: ……………………

3. Sub- County: …………………………
4. Category of the School: Public | |       Private |   |
5. Registration Certificate No; ………………………………………………
6. Date of Registration: ………………………………………………………
7. Level of School Registration: Primary | | Junior Secondary School | |
8. Validity of Registration: Valid I I       Expired I  I

9.     Type of School:

1. Boys | |
2. Girls | |
3. Mixed | |
4. Boarding | |
5. Day | |
6. Day and Boarding | |

10.  Nature of the School:

1. Regular | |
2. Special | |
3. Regular with special Unit | |
4. Regular with Inclusive Programmes | |

11.  School’s Enrollment as per the Third Term of 2022

 

12. Is the school registered on NEMIS: Yes | |         No |  |
13. Headteacher Qualification (including management training)

………………………………………………………………………………………

14. Headteacher’s Area of Specialization (for Special Schools)

………………………………………………………………………………………

15.  Teaching Staff Availability:

 

16. No of Teachers with the following Qualification(s):

PTE: ………. Diploma (DPTE/DSTE): ………… B. ED…………………… Others (Specify): ………………………………………………………………

17. Manager Qualifications (for private schools) ………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………

18. Validity of BoM/Board of Directors/Trustees (Specify appointment date):

……………………………………………………………………………………

19. Non-Teaching Staff: Male ………. Female ………Total……………………..
20. Type of buildings: Permanent | | Semi-permanent |                                                  | (Timber, Mabati, Earth)
21. Indicate the Type of Building Materials Used ………………………………

22.  Number of DLP Equipment Available and Functional

 

23. Availability of internet Yes    |   |                No |   |

24.  Specify the Approximate Distance to the Nearest Learning Institution.

 

25. Status of SEQIP sanitation facilities (where applicable);

Complete |   |       On-going |   |

26. Other additional relevant information (Specify)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………..

SECTION C: ADHERENCE TO MINIMUM REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

1. LOCATION OF THE SCHOOL

NOTE: Score 1 mark or 0 marks as specified against the indicators.

 

B. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

NOTE: Score every indicator 1 mark if marked ‘Yes’ or 0 marks if marked ‘No’

 

SECTION D: SCORING GUIDE

The scale below will guide in determining the level of readiness for the school to admit JSS learners. The school’s final percentage score will be arrived at by summing the score awarded, divided by the total score of applicable indicators multiplied by 100.

School score                                 X100%                                                      =Percentage score Total score of applicable indicators

The School will be judged Good, Fair or Poor as tabulated

 

School’s Score: …………………………………………………………………….

SECTION E: RECOMMENDATION (Tick as appropriate)

1. Approved to admit JSS learners in January, 2023 

ii. Approved as feeder school for JJS in January, 2023 |  |

NOTE: Indicate the specific JSSs and enrolment capacity (together with the learners from the Feeder School): …………………………………………………….

• Not approved at all

 

Three cabinet secretaries are set to meet today over thorough preparations to secure this year’s national examinations.

Besides, authorities have alerted the public to avoid any form of cheating national exams as it will attract tough penalties.

The Kenya National Examinations Council also warned its staff against attempts of leaking the examination.

In an interview with The Standard, the KNEC Chief Executive Officer Mercy Karogo reiterated that the KNEC Act on the penalties were clear.

Any member, officer, agent or staff who commits an examination irregularity due to omission or commission and is liable to imprisonment for up to five years.

The irregularity can also attract a fine not exceeding kshs 5,000,000.

MEETING
This tough warning comes as the Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’ i and Education CS Professor George Magoha are set for a meeting today.

The main agenda will be securing the national examinations against any irregularities.

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) CS Joe Mucheru and the Teachers Service Commission Secretary Dr Nancy Macharia will also attend the meeting at the Kenya School of Government.

NEW PADLOCKS, KEYS AND METALLIC BOXES
According to The Standard, new padlocks and keys to the metallic containers where the examination papers will be stored will be given to regional officers.
Around 479 high-security metallic boxes will be used to store the examination papers in 338 sub-counties.

Each container will be guarded by five police officers.

Two officers will work during the day, two at night with one supervisor in charge of the four officers.

Today’s meeting marks the beginning of the examination period.

315 SCHOOLS ON THE SPOT
According to the investigations by KNEC, some schools are planning to station subject teachers in school to help learners to cheat during the national examinations.

In other schools, the teachers are planning to markup KCPE papers for standard eight candidates.

Parents have also jumped the bandwagon by collecting funds to facilitate leakages in schools.

In total, 315 schools have been earmarked and put under tight security over plans to cheat in the upcoming national examinations.

Karogo yesterday told The Standard that unauthorized possession of exam papers, materials or information will attract imprisonment and/or fine.

Dr Mercy Karogo also warned schools against changing examination numbers, photographs or other identification documents of students.

She added that this will attract a jail term not exceeding five years, a fine not exceeding Ksh 1million or both.

Examination officers who will misuse examination materials, lose or destroy them will also face a jail term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding sh 2 million.

IDENTICAL ANSWERS
Cases of students having identical readings in science practical and copied textbook answers have previously been identified.

Today’s meeting is a result of the numerous engagements KNEC has had in the past few weeks.

Last week, a team of about 500 monitors met in Nairobi for a briefing on how to mitigate cheating.