By Roy Hezron
The 2021 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) registration and verification exercise has been extended by two weeks.
In a circular dated August 6, 2021 to Regional and County Directors of Education, Education cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha has directed the exercise to end on August 14, 2021 noting that all candidates’ details should properly be captured into the Kenya National Examination Council’s (KNEC) portal.
“This is to direct all County Directors of Education to ensure that all examination centres fully comply with all registration requirements for all eligible candidates, including the uploading of their details onto the KNEC portal,” noted Prof. Magoha.
The final registration deadline is now slated for August 14, 2021 where the exercise was scheduled to close on July 31, 2021.
He warned heads of institutions or examination centers that they will be held personally liable for failure to register any candidate(s).
The registration deadline will be followed with verification of candidates’ registration details as captured in the 2021 KCPE and KCSE nominal rolls in mid-August this year.
Preparations for the 2021 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations commenced with the registration of candidates from June 2, 2021.
By July 31, 2021, a total of 1,218,892 candidates in 28,248 centers and 824,392 candidates in 10,384 centers had been registered for the KCPE and KCSE examinations respectively according to KNEC.
In 2020, 1,191,616 and 752,602 candidates were registered for the KCPE and KCSE respectively.
This represents an increase of 2.29 per cent and 9.54 per cent in candidature in the 2021 KCPE and KCSE respectively compared with 2020.
The phenomenal increase in KCSE candidature is attributed to the success of the Government’s policy of 100 per cent transition which started in 2018.
