The Ministry of Education announced far-reaching changes in how this year’s national examinations will be administered, even as it stated that the new Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) grading system will be applied immediately.
A record 3.5 million candidates are set to sit various national examinations — KPSEA, KCPE and KCSE — between October 30 and November 24.
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu said the new grading structure for KCSE will see only two mandatory subjects required for computing a candidates mean grade. The first will be mathematics and the second will be English, Kiswahili or Kenyan Sign Language, whichever the candidate has a higher score in.
The reform measures are expected to increase the number of students qualifying for university admission, diploma courses and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) training at certificate and artisan levels.“We have today met here with all the key stakeholdersto discuss the new grading structure that will be implemented in the 2023 KCSE exam,” said the CS.In the past, a candidate had to be examined on five mandatory subjects across three cluster groups namely; mathematics, English, Kiswahili, two sciences and one humanity. This is as per the report by the media houses during a press brief on 2023 KCSE.
By Newsmedia