Examiners reported to marking stations this week and are almost done marking the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) Insha ad Composition papers.
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) invited examiners to apply for 2021 marking exercise in preparation for the KCPE Insha and Composition and it now seems the examiners have done a great job so far.
The examiners have been marking Insha and Composition papers at the Alliance High School.
One of the invite messages sent to examiners is shown below:
“CHANCE OF REPORTING DATE FOR EXAMINERS. You are expected to report on Tuesday 15th March 2022 at ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL latest by 3 pm. Coordination begins immediately. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this change. Thank you”
The Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha announced that the KCPE results will be released within two weeks.
“If we push ourselves, the results will be out within fourteen days,” said CS Magoha.
The CS also revealed that marking began immediately after the first three papers had been handed in.
“If we delay it could get to that time but you shouldn’t be surprised if we finish earlier,” added CS Magoha while at the Kamkunji Sub-County container pick-up point in Nairobi where he oversaw the examination distribution process at the container.
On his part, the Early Learning and Basic Education PS Julius Jwan also assured that results would be released early to allow for a smooth transition to the secondary school level.
“We are determined not to waste any time. Marking of examinations will be completed within a short time and results will be released to allow students to join secondary school by May,” said PS Juan.
The acquisition of a modern Optical Mark Recognition which scores the papers electronically has made the process of marking multiple questions easier. The OMR captures marked data from candidates’ answer sheets using a specialized scanning technique.
The machines mark the multiple-choice questions by shining a beam of light on the papers. The contrasting reflection at predetermined positions on every page is used to detect marked areas as they reflect less light that the unmarked areas of the paper.
The machines marked the scripts in batches of 100 to 200 sheets unlike previously when the technology of that time used to take hours to do the same job.
This year’s KCPE has a total of 1,225,507 candidates sitting for their KCPE examination from 28,316 KCPE examination centres.
This year represents an increase of 33,755 which is equivalent to an increase of 2.75 per cent. 491 distribution centres served this year’s KCPE examinations.