The Kenya National Examination Council has addressed the series of concerns from parents over the errors in the recently released Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam results.
KNEC stated that it had reviewed the concerns and appeals raised by concerned parents who claimed that some of the results had misaligned the marks and grades in Kiswahili as they were replaced with Kenya Sign Language.
The National examination body said that according to Rules of 2015 Legal Notice 131 on the marking of examinations, release of results and certification, Rule 27, candidates can appeal the results within 30 days from the date of the release of the examination results.
KNEC also confirmed that there were cases where the grades in Science and Social Studies and Religious Education were truncated incorrectly and were missing either the plus (+) or minus (-) signs as expected.
KNEC clarified that these errors affected only SMS results due to configuration issues but confirmed that results on the KNEC portal were accurate.
Additionally, KNEC pointed out that only 133 candidates were affected by having low marks in some of the subjects, including English and Kiswahili.
“These cases have all been addressed and results for the affected candidates updated appropriately.”
The body also addressed another incident where all the candidates in a school attained an identical mark of 75 in Science.
The Council reviewed all the results from the examination centers and found no indication that the school was involved in any exam malpractice.
“Science is a multiple-choice question paper, thus making it possible for the candidates to get identical marks,” KNEC stated.
“Though this may be assumed to be an examination irregularity, it is not adequate evidence for KNEC to sanction the results for candidates without a supporting report that cheating happened during the administration of the examination.” said KNEC leadership.
