Monday, December 28, 2009

Kenya Exam Results Online

This morning, embattled officials of Kenya's Ministry of Education will release results of primary school education performance for over 700,000 students who sat the exam last year – and these will be posted at the Exams Council website

The exams council has also gazetted some rule changes that have been in effect for some years now, covering KCSE which is the next level of exams (high school) these students will take in four years time:

- Kenyans may sit for may sit for the exam outside the country if an embassy/mission makes an application on their behalf, the exam is administered by a local exam body, and the candidate meets costs related to facilitating the exam
- Students must do at least 7 subjects (best 7 will count)
- Examined subjects can include sign language, aviation, drawing & design, building construction, Hindu religious education, and 2 alternatives of mathematics paper. Also there are special papers in Braille and question papers for the hearing impaired.
- Exams may be remarked at request of school head teacher with justification
- The rules have been updated to cover exam offences and consequences such as exam results mat be withheld or canceled – and students given grade Y (as opposed to A B C D E) and may not sit exam for a subsequent two years. Exam centers can be de-registered if wide-spread malpractices are shown
- Allows students of other East African counties to take exam
- Candidates may use calculators and state the type used (silent, non programmable) - may not store formulas or algebra, draw/store graphics, have dictionaries etc. If schools provide calculators, they shall be of the same make
- Candidates may re-sit exams as many times as possible

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The website has been down for most of today. It seems KNEC has totally failed the online exams!!!!!

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