Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu says the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results released on the Kenya National Examination Council ( KNEC) portal were correct and that errors in some results were attributed to transmission glitches.
“I want to assure Kenyans that the KCPE results were credible. Everything was fine and principals of various schools can confirm...the issue arose from transmission,” Machogu said in Eldoret.
Following applicants' complaints that they received results for topics for which they had not registered, a number of parents and educational institutions have filed lawsuits in response to the discrepancies.
Although there were obvious discrepancies in the sign language and Kiswahili, CS Machogu has disregarded claims of subpar exam marking.
However, Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang announced that KNEC had flagged 1,935 errors being reviewed before the 60-day deadline for relaying the examination results.
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“Our systems are okay, we have our PS even showing the Parliamentary committee how it works,” he added.
PS Kipsang, while taking the National Assembly Education Committee through the examination marking process, said 1,935 errors had been flagged and are currently being reviewed before the 60 days deadline for relaying actual results.
“The results we provide within 60 days are provisional, confirmed results come after reviewing the errors,” he said.
The latest reaction on KCPE 2023 results mishaps includes sentiments from the National Assembly Education Committee that inspected the KNEC Exam Operational Center at the Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, Nairobi.
The Education Parliamentary watchdog called on the expedition to form a Complaints Tribunal that will address exam complaints due to the errors.
KNEC was instructed to compel Safaricom to refund users who attempted to access the SMS result text messages but could not due to system failure.
