To guarantee that no candidate from the final 2023 cohort misses Form One admission, Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has announced that those who failed the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) will have the opportunity to retake the exam in January 2024.

"To ensure that no candidate misses out in joining Form One from the final 2023 KCPE examination cohort, the Ministry of Education will conduct through mapping of any of those who may have failed to sit their examination this year in order to administer a Special Exam in January 2024," said the CS.

In Thursday's examination results announcement at the newly constructed Kenya National Examination Council headquarters in South B, Machogu disclosed that 9,354 applicants still needed to complete their exams.


Additionally, Belio Kipsang, Principal Secretary for Basic Education, promised to guarantee prompt payment to KCPE examiners and pledged to do the same for KCSE markers.

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 "We have paid all our examiners of KCPE marking. We also want to assure my colleagues in KCSE that we shall ensure that they are paid within the time that is required of us to pay," Kipsang said.

According to Kipsang, to ensure a seamless reopening of schools in January 2024, the Ministry is working with the National Treasury to accelerate first-term capitation payments.


With 1.4 million taking the KCPE exam and 1.2 million sitting for the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) exam, which completed the transition to the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), this comes after the exams were administered.