The highly anticipated 2025 national exams wait is over as the D-day, Tuesday October 21, 2025 is here. Counties Director of Education (CDE), Kenya National Examination Council and the Ministry of Education have assured of students’ safety, exams regularities and logistics assurance.
A total of 67,457 candidates are set to sit for the exams across 1,131 centers in the county. Of these, 32,679 will sit for the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA), 22,885 for the KJSEA, 11,757 for the KCSE, and 18 for the Kenya Primary Level Education Assessment (KPLEA).
Out of the total, 33,821 are boys and 33,526 are girls, with 110 private candidates registered for the examinations. The breakdown by centre includes 557 for KPSEA, 452 for KJSEA, 120 for KCSE, and one for KPLEA.
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In the KPSEA category, 29,476 candidates are from public schools and 3,213 from private institutions. For the KJSEA, 21,492 are from public schools and 1,391 from private schools, while 11,163 KCSE candidates are from public schools and 594 from private institutions.
KCSE exams will begin on October 21 and run for four weeks, while both KPSEA and KJSEA will commence on October 27, lasting three and six days respectively.
This marks a historic national exam, where a total of 3,424,836 students are scheduled to sit for the 2025 national examinations. This total includes 996,078 for the KCSE, 1,298,089 for the KPSEA and 1,130,669 for the new KJSEA.
By Juma Ndigo
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