Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba says over 960,000 candidates who wrote the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination will get their results in January 2025. Education CS Julius Ogamba in a past educational event in Nairobi. The CS, however, refrained from giving the exact date the results will be announced.
Speaking on the sidelines of Kabete National Polytechnic’s 5th Graduation Ceremony on Wednesday, December 12, Ogamba said the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) examiners were finalising the marking. “We should be able to get the results in January. Now we are working on the marking; it is in process. Once they are ready, we will release them. I won’t be able to give a particular date because the ongoing process is for marking,” said Ogamba.
How many 2024 KCSE candidates took part in exam cheating? This year’s theory and practical tests for the four-year Kenyan secondary education were undertaken in 10,755 centres. The examination, which lasted a month between October 22 and November 22, recorded paltry cases of exam malpractice. According to the Ministry of Education, 621 candidates were implicated in irregularities.
The culprits were found to have unauthorised written materials, mobile phones, and colliding with non-candidates to cheat in the examination. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) is still investigating some cases. On November 5, the detectives arrested a man suspected to be behind a Telegram group circulating the papers.
Why Nyamira man ended up in DCI’s custody Stephen Nyang’au Mbeche, a native of Nyamira county, was accused of creating the “KCSE 2024 Leakage Group,” where he distributed examination papers while exploiting candidates and parents. Photos shared by the DCI showed Mbeche’s Telegram group had garnered 802 members, from whom the suspect asked for upfront payment to distribute the papers.
A detailed search at his premises resulted in the seizure of a mobile phone and a laptop, the supposed tools of trade he used in his illegal venture. In some areas, teachers were implicated in instances of aiding in the circulation of the papers. Elsewhere, the examination period was marred with a mixture of sorrow and merry. In certain centres, candidates gave birth before proceeding with the tests, and in others, candidates succumbed to illness and other causes of death.
by Kai Eli
