KNEC Admits Errors Awarding 133 KCPE Candidates Wrong Marks In Some Subjects

The Kenya National Examination Council has acknowledged that there are 133 candidates who were awarded wrong marks in the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam. 

Knec CEO David Njengere on Saturday said they have been receiving appeals from some affected schools on dissatisfaction on their results as received through the SMS code 40054.

Njengere said Knec also received queries from candidates with low marks in some of the subjects, mainly in English and Kiswahili.

“Knec has reviewed all the appeals and found that there were 133 candidates affected.”

Njengere assured that all the 133 cases have been addressed and results for the affected candidates updated appropriately.

The KNEC Rules of 2015 Legal Notice 131 on the marking of examinations, release of results and certification, Rule 27, provides for candidates/schools to lodge appeals for review of the examination results to the Council in writing within thirty days from the date of release of the examination results. 

The council divulged that some candidates had misaligned marks and graded in Kiswahili as they were placed in the Kenyan Sign Language.

“There were also cases where the grades in Science and Social Studies and Religious Education were truncated incorrectly and were missing the plus (+) and minus (-) signs as expected.

“The error affected only the SMS results due to configuration issues, as the results in the KNEC portal are accurate. KNEC notified the SMS service provider, and the error in the text messages was resolved immediately,” KNEC explained.

The council also revealed that it had received queries from candidates with low marks in some of the subjects, mainly in English and Kiswahili.