By Education News Reporter
This year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidates will know their results before Christmas after the country reverted to the normal January-December school calendar after the Covid-19 disruption.
Both the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) national examinations will start on October 30, 2023 and end on November 2, 2023.
On the other hand, the three-week long Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations will start on November 3, 2023 and expected to end on November 24, 2023 to pave way for marking.
The marking exercise which will take three weeks will commence on November 27, 2023 and end on December 15, 2023.
Since the country experienced the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, which occasioned a prolonged closure of schools, the Government has been running a heavily constricted and reorganized school calendar in a spirited attempt to restore the normal term dates.
The reorganization came at a heavy price to; parents in terms of pressure to clear school fees within short intervals; teachers having heavy workloads while learners had to cover more content within extremely short periods.
The 2022 KCPE and KCSE cohorts were the most affected lot. When the pandemic hit the country, the cohorts were in Standard Six and Form Two respectively; they resumed their classes upon the full reopening of schools in January 2021.
Between January 2021 and November 2022 (just 23 months) this cohort managed to cover three school calendar years, with the KCPE cohort covering their Standard 8 school calendar in just six months having started in June 2022.
In between, the country went into a General Election that also occasioned an unnecessarily long half term break, besides the confusion and anxiety associated with the national exercise.
The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has already started registering the 2023 national examination cohorts KPSEA, KCPE and KCSE; which started on February 1, 2023 and expected to end on March 30, 2023.
