Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has made public the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) timetable for the examination that will be done in October and November 2024.
The timetable provides important subjects that will start and when KCSE will end below.
All the KCSE 2024 examinations will be done in November.
Important dates, 2024 Timetable
On Friday 18th October 2024 ,it is set as the rehearsal day for candidates.
2024 KCSE examination will officially start on Tuesday 22nd October 2024 .
The examination will be done allm through to end on Friday 22nd November 2024.
Note that the Practical subjects like Agriculture, Computer, Arts, Woodwork, Metal work among others are already ongoing teachers should be submitting the results based on guidelines.
The list id Project papers include
- Art and Design (442/3),
- Agriculture (443/3)
- Woodwork (444/2)
- Metalwork (445/2)
- Building Construction (446/2)
- Computer Studies (451/3)
These practical papers are slated to run for 7 months beginning January 2024 to July 2024.
All Secondary Schools with with candidates doing the listed practicals are asked to upload marks for project subjects by 31st March for Milestone One.
For milestone two , marks will be submitted on 31st July 2024 .
2024 KCSE examinations s will run for a period of 30 days , ending on 22nd November 2024 with Physics practical examination .
2024 KCSE Subject that will start and End
2024 KCSE examination will start with practical papers which are not done by majority of the students.
These papers include ;
- French (Oral)
- German (Oral)
- Arabic (oral)
- Kenyan Sign Language
- Music Practical.
In the last week of examinations, learners will sit for Physics, Business Studies and Agriculture subjects.

High School students take KCSE examinations ;Image/Courtesy
After this exercise, all students will be at liberty to leave their respective institution after completing their examinations.
The official 2024 KNEC timetable for KCSE is available for downloading knec.ac.ke portal
Note that in this year, there will be no Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations since the last cohort did their the examinations last year,2023
What about the other subjects like mathematics English kiswahili…
Why not mention when to be stared.
It needs accuracy
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