KCPE Exam Results Out Next Week,Says Magoha

NAIROBI,Kenya, Mar, 18 – Education Cabinet Secretary professor George Magoha has said that the results for the 2021 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination will be released next week once the marking process is complete.

According to Magoha this will either be on Wednesday or even Saturday based on president Uhuru Kenyatta’s availability. It is customary that before the exam results are made public, the president is first notified.

“We are woking with sometime next week, anytime between Wednesday and Saturday depending with his excellency, the president’s availability. We should be able to tell our children how they have performed, and I think this is good so that parents can start planning for them,’ said Magoha.

According to the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC), a total of 1,225,693 candidates sat for the examinations nationwide.

“In terms of marking for KCPE, we are completing the making of OMR tomorrow so the rest of the four or five days will be marking for Kiswahili Insha and English Composition,” he said.

The marking of marking of multiple choice questions was made easier by the acquisition of the modern Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) which electronically scores the papers.

The machines work with a dedicated scanning device that shines a beam of light on the paper.

The contrasting reflection at predetermined positions on a page is then used to detect marked areas as they reflect less light than the blank areas of the paper.

Compared to the old system that was faulted for taking too long, with the OMR,scripts are marked in batches of 100 and 200 sheets.

The OMR machines are said to have improved accuracy during marking and reduced human interaction with candidates’ results.

Once the results are announced candidates will then be placed across various secondary school in a process supervised and conducted by the education ministry

During the KCPE exams no single paper was leaked according to the ministry of education despite several exam malpractice cases that threatened the integrity of the process.