Kenya National Examination Council CEO David Njeng'ere has been overseeing the marking of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination that was completed early this month.
Njeng'ere on Saturday was at St George's Girls Secondary School, Nairobi, to preside over the closing ceremony for English Composition and Kiswahili Insha marking exercise
The Knec boss commended the teachers for their great work in steering the KCPE exam from its inception to this moment of transition to the Competency-Based Curriculum.
“You are the real heroes of the 8-4-4 system and we appreciate you. We now urge and depend on you to similarly run CBC successfully,” he said.
After the completion of the KCPE exams on November 1, Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang said marking would commence immediately to allow parents to have the results of their children before the festive season.
"Before we break for Christmas, our parents would have known where their children would have been admitted to. This will allow them to mobilise the necessary resources for them to take their children to school," Belio said.
The PS said before the end of January 2024, every learner should be in school.
On marking, Belio said the ministry is adequately resourced to pay the professionals who have been handling the exams.
"We want to assure our examiners that this year, we shall be able to put out all payments that are due to them in good time," he said.
The national exams season seems to be coming to an end as Form Four candidates are going into the last week of their KCSE exams.
The candidates are set to sit Geography Paper 1 and Physics Paper 1 on Monday.
On Tuesday, the learners will sit Business Studies Paper 1 and Agriculture Paper 1.
Geography Paper 2 and Physics Paper 2 will be done on Wednesday.
On Thursday, the candidates will sit Business Paper 2 and Agriculture Paper 2.
The candidates will sit a Physics practical paper on Friday which will mark the end of the KCSE 2023 exam.
The exams started on October 23.
Some 903,260 candidates are sitting this year’s KCSE exam.
