Why KCPE Results 2021-2022 Confirmed Release Date Sends Jitters Among KCPE Candidates this Year

 In a nutshell:

The confirmed release date for this year’s KCPE Results is 23rd March, 2022.

The over 1.2 Million KCPE 2021 candidates are a bundle of nerves following the February 2022 Knec report predicting Mass failures citing inadequate preparedness among more than 50 percent of the candidates linked to the six- months sudden closure of learning institutions due to the covid-19 pandemic.

CS Magoha Reveals Official KCPE Results Release Date. See why Candidates are a Bundle of Nerves

The Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education Professor George Magoha recently hinted on a possible release date for the 2021-2022 KCPE results.

The CS revealed that the 2022 KCPE results for 2021 candidates will be ready in two week’s time that is by March 23, 2022.

According to the CS the examiner has greatly invested in technology this speeding up the process of marking multiple answer questions.

For the past few years, Knec has shunned manual assessments for Kiswahili Lugha, English Language, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.

The aforementioned exams are marked using a computerized system that is able to sieve the correct answer from a set of four.

This has greatly improved efficiency in the council eliminating human errors.

The 2022 Knec KCPE contracted examiners will however award candidate scores for two papers carrying a maximum of 40 marks that is English Composition and Kiswahili Insha.

The 2021 KCPE candidates are however a bundle of nerves after a Knec report predicted mass failure during this year’s KCPE exams.

Here is the full Knec Report Predicting Mass Failure of KCPE 2021 Candidates 

KCPE Results- Mass Failure Predicted: Mutheu Kasanga, CS Magoha speak on learners failing the National Assessment conducted  Ahead of Release of the 2022 KCPE Results

Mutheu Kasanga has predicted mass failure of KCPE 2021 candidates this year ahead of the official release of the 2022 Knec results in March.

According to an assessment test conducted whose results were released in February 2022, only 50 percent of the 2021-2022 KCPE candidates would have passed if the 2021 KCPE tests were conducted then.

She therefore called upon KCPE candidates and teachers to come up with the necessary interventions to guarantee improved results when the national tests are finally conducted.

Education CS Rubbishes Knec Report Predicting Mass Failure of KCPE 2021-2022 Candidates

Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha however weighed in strongly dismissing the February report by the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) that suggested that candidates are not prepared to sit the forthcoming national examinations. Prof. Magoha castigated the council terming their assessments as inaccurate outright insensitive saying they date 12 weeks back. He dismissed widespread fears of unpreparedness saying candidates are ready to sit their exams. “You would’ve contextualised this report in such a manner that it was done more than 12 weeks ago, since then the learners have been in school and they’re going to be there for another 6 weeks before they have exams. What the hell do you think you’re doing by killing their spirits?” Posed the CS. The report recently released by the council raised concerns over the preparedness of a majority of Class Eight examination candidates whose learning was disrupted by a 9 month-forced break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Those children are intelligent, and all we should do is give them hope in life to do their exams and see how far they go,” Prof. Magoha however noted. The KNEC report had suggested that 18 out of the 47 counties had mean scores above 50.0, with Nairobi recording the highest mean score at 59.20%, followed by Garissa and Mandera at 56.34 and 55.11% respectively. The lowest mean scores were observed in Turkana (44.34%), Tana River (44.37%), and Samburu (44.51%) Figures from the council also show that 263, 480 candidates performed dismally with under 200 marks out of a possible 500 in 2019; translating to 24% of the 1,083, 456 candidates who sat for the exams that year. More than half of the total candidates scored below the average mark of 250, suggesting that a large number of pupils posted between average and below average performance in 2019.

Kenyans are now waiting anxiously to see what the 2021-2022 KCPE results will look like if the assessment was a true reflection of the 2021 KCPE Candidates’ academic abilities.