Education CS Prof George Magoha is expected to release KCSE 2020 results today.
Candidates who sat the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations in March and April will be getting their results nearly six months later than the traditional announcement date of late December.
Marking of the national test, which is the first final secondary education examination to be conducted under the Covid-19 pandemic, was completed last week.
The months-long disruption to the school calendar last year makes the release of the results a significant occasion for candidates, their families and education policymakers.
Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha promised that the examinations would be administered and marked “with a human face”, to assuage fears of learners who felt inadequately prepared to sit the test.
“We are all determined to ensure (that) grades awarded to our learners are all merited and that our academic qualifications are beyond reproach,” Prof Magoha said at the end of the examinations.
The CS has given today, May 10 2021, as the deadline for release of the results.
On Friday last week, he said that the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) only needed a couple of days to process the papers received from the markers.
“We are going to the next step which will require certain experts to do certain things and, therefore, there should be no rumours as to when the exams results will be ready. They will be ready when they are ready. The results will come out reasonably well as expected,” Prof Magoha said while announcing the conclusion of the marking.
Private primary school owners claimed that their students were marked down in the KCPE exams released last month, but Education officials strongly denied the accusation.
The Education CS indicated that an early release of results would benefit to make up for the time lost last year due to prolonged closure of schools forced by the Covid-19 pandemic. He said that candidates who wish to apply for the new diploma in teacher education that has been aligned to the competency-based curriculum will be eligible for the second intake in August.
