KNEC 2023 KCSE Grades Errors. After much discussion, the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has now acknowledged that system faults occurred in the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams. The errors were identified months ago.
KNEC representatives disclosed to the National Assembly Education Committee on Tuesday, September 9, 2024, that certain students were given higher grades than their actual scores due to a technological glitch.
The officials made it abundantly evident that the observed KNEC system fault prevented the addition of the minus (-) symbol to some student mean grades.
It was stated in a paper that KNEC brought to the Education Committee that the council ran into technical issues with the printing procedure.
The mistake then resulted in the minus signs (-) being omitted; nevertheless, this happened in certain grades but not in others.
According to the papers, certain students’ grades were printed as D (plain) in certain cases rather than as D- (minus).
The council pointed out that of the 899, 453 candidates who took the 2023 exam, only 3,018 students from roughly 1059 examination centers were impacted by the mistakes.
What KNEC has done to address the challenge .
The Committee was reassured by the Examination Council that the results were accurately reflected on the internet portal.
KNEC expeditiously delivered revised printouts 2023 to the impacted schools after observing inconsistencies only in the printed KCSE nominal rolls that were given to the institutions.
After much discussion, the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has now acknowledged that system faults occurred in the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams. The errors were identified months ago.
KNEC 2023 KCSE Grades Errors
KNEC representatives disclosed to the National Assembly Education Committee on Tuesday, September 9, 2024, that certain students were given higher grades than their actual scores due to a technological glitch.
The officials made it abundantly evident that the observed KNEC system fault prevented the addition of the minus (-) symbol to some student mean grades.
It was stated in a paper that KNEC brought to the Education Committee that the council ran into technical issues with the printing procedure.
The mistake then resulted in the minus signs (-) being omitted; nevertheless, this happened in certain grades but not in others.
According to the papers, certain students’ grades were printed as D (plain) in certain cases rather than as D- (minus).
The council observed that of the 899, 453 candidates that took the 2023 exam, only 3,018 pupils from roughly 1059 examination centers were impacted by the errors.
KNEC 2023 KCSE Grades Errors