Govt Offers 4-12 months Window For 8-4-4 College students to Clear and Redo Exams

Candidates who schooled below the 8-4-4 systemcould have 4 years to clear any pending examination issues, KNEC Chairperson, Prof. Julius Nyabundi introduced on Monday.

Talking in the course of the announcement of the 2023 outcomes, Prof. Nyabundi famous that the 8-4-4 system had 4 cycles left and due to this fact, college students had solely 4 years left to clear any points associated to KCSE exams.

“There are 4 cycles left for the administration of the KCSE examinations within the 8-4-4 schooling system. Candidates with pending examination issues are suggested to clear them,” Prof. Nyabundi remarked in an announcement.

The Chairman additional famous that anybody who needed to redo the KCSE exams had a four-year interval to take action.

Moreover, college students who didn’t sit for exams will likely be allowed to take supplementary assessments.

“The Council will enable anybody who would want to have a second try, full or partial exams, to take action inside these 4 years”, the chairman emphasised.

Primarily based on information launched by the Ministry of Training, 3000 college students who have been registered for the exams didn’t take the papers, a matter which led the President to order aprobe into the matter.

Talking on the identical, CS Machogu famous that some colleges participated in examination malpractices by inflating their numbers to achieve the required variety of 30 college students to register for the exams.

 “I, due to this fact, direct the related directorate of high quality assurance to work with KNEC to analyze the three,685 candidates who failed to take a seat for the exams with the view to unearthing their true identification and whereabouts,” the CS emphasised.

Within the 2023 KCSE exams, the CS introduced that over 4,000 college students have been concerned in examination malpractices. The CS famous that the exams have been marred by malpractices at the same time as the federal government heightened the measures towards pre-exposure to the papers.�

A complete of 903,260 college students sat final 12 months’s KCSE exams, a rise from 881,416 candidates who took the exams in 2022.

KNEC emphasised that the four-year interval given to the scholars was designed to scale back congestion and confusion in future years amongst college students within the CBC program.