The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has announced the registration dates for the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) exams.
Speaking during the release of the 2023 KCSE results KNEC CEO David Njeng’ere said the registration begin on January 29, 2024, and end on March 29, 2024.
“The registration for 2024 KPSEA and KCSE will begin on the 29th of January, and it is going to run for two months up to 29th of March,” said Njeng’ere.
He directed principals and head teachers to carry out the registration process within the provided period.
“We want to appeal to the school principals to make sure that all eligible are registered inside that period of two months. Two months is adequate to register all the candidates,” he said.
KCSE Registration Changes
Further, the CEO explained that the Commission will not accept late KCSE and KPSEA registrations.
He emphasized that the school heads should take full advantage of the period adding that there will no extension.
“Please note there will be no late registration this year, we are not going to extend the registration even by a day,” said Njeng’ere.
Additionally, he asked the parents to follow up on the registration of their children for the examinations.
“Parents please also take it as your responsibility to find out from your school if your child has been registered within that period of two months,” he said.
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KNEC Registration Challenges
According to Njeng’ere, the Commission normally faces major challenges in the registration of candidates for the national examinations.
” Just one announcement which is very critical to us, is on the registration of candidates for KPSEA and KCSE for 2024. We always have major challenges in this area,” he stated.
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2023 KCSE Exams
The CEO explained that KNEC hosted visitors from six countries who helped them process the KCSE results to ensure they meet the regional and international standards.
This included experts from Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, South Sudan and Eswatini.
Furthermore, he thanked CS Ezekiel Machogu for his directive to the KNEC to address the challenge of exam malpractice in the 2023 KCSE.
“Last year what we experienced in this country was a major milestone in this country that we didn’t have a single case of early exposure of the second session paper. This is because our centre managers were willing and they cooperated in terms of the double collection of papers from the containers,” he explained.
Also, he revealed that the Commission faced no difficult in the marking centres unlike in the 2022 KCSE.
