We are ready, exams agency tells students
What you need to know:
- The council also said 47 students from Bongwe Secondary School in Msambweni, Kwale County who were not registered for the examination will not be allowed to sit for it.
- Exam council’s senior deputy secretary Ambia Noor told the National Assembly’s education committee yesterday that the examination will be taken in 35,045 examination centres across the country.
The Kenya National Examinations Council on Thursday announced that it was ready for the Form Four national examination’s theory papers that start on Monday.
The council also said 47 students from Bongwe Secondary School in Msambweni, Kwale County, who were not registered for the examination will not be allowed to sit for it.
The council’s senior deputy secretary, Ms Ambia Noor, told the National Assembly’s Education Committee yesterday that the examination will be taken in 35,045 examination centres across the country.
Ms Noor said the distribution of examination materials had started and will run till October 10.
Ms Noor added that 126,807 officials will be involved in the examination while examination papers will be airlifted to areas where there may be problems due to El Niño rains.
A total of 525,802 candidates will sit the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination while 937,467 candidates will take the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination, which starts next month.
Committee members had demanded that the 47 students be allowed to sit the examination, but the council insisted that there was no such provision.
Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi, who was present, called on the Teachers Service Commission to take action against teachers who fail to register students.
