The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has at last accepted that there were system errors months now following a debate on the errors were reported in the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations.
Appearing before the National Assembly Education Committee on Tuesday 9th 2024 , KNEC officials revealed that a system error awarded some students higher grades than what they had really scored.
The officials pointed out clearly that KNEC system error that was noted did not allow for the minus (-) sign to be put on some of the mean grades for students.
In a document to presented by KNEC before the Education Committee, indicated that the council encountered technical difficulties while doing the printing process.
The error then lead to the omission of minus signs (-) , however this occured in some grades but not all
The documents indicates that in some situations some students’ grades were printed as D (plain) instead of a D- (minus) grade.
The council noted that it was only 3,018 students from about 1059 examination centres out of the entire 899, 453 candidates who sat for the 2023 exam that were affected by the errors.
KCSE academic certificate ;Image/Courtesy
What KNEC has done to address the challenge .
The examination council assured the Committee that the online portal reflected the accurate results.
Having noted the discrepancies solely in the printed KCSE nominal rolls distributed to schools, KNEC took speed response deliver corrected printouts 2023 to affected schools.
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