The marking exercise of the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations has been completed. Examiners spent a record time of about two weeks (14 days) to have all the papers marked.
After the marking exercise, the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) will take a few days to moderate the candidates’ scores before they are officially released.
Most papers had been fully marked by Sunday 2nd May 2021, with just a few remaining. Examiners in Mathematics Paper 2, CRE Paper 1, Chemistry Paper 2, Biology and History were the first ones to have the KCSE 2020 examination papers fully marked.
According to sources familiar with the exercise, the KCSE 2020 results will officially be released by Friday 7th May, 2021. This is within the period earlier announced by the Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha. The CS had indicated that the results would be out by the 10th of May, 2021.
The 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations will be released today; Monday May 10, 2021 at noon. The results will be announced by Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha after briefing President Uhuru Kenyatta on the candidates’ performance in the examinations.
See how you can receive the results, below.
The marking exercise was concluded on Friday and the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) worked on the results over the weekend. As expected, the results have been Standardized before being released officially.
There are various ways of getting your KCSE 2020 results from Knec; after they have been officially announced. These include: Using the Knec SMS Code, visiting the Knec online portal and going to your former school to collect your results.
CHECKING KCSE 2020/2021 RESULTS USING KNEC ONLINE PORTAL
To use this method to check 2020/2021 results you only need to remember your index number and access your mobile phone or computer Here is the procedure:
Your KCSE results should show on the screen after a while.
HOW TO DOWNLOAD KCSE RESULTS FOR WHOLE SCHOOL
Principals can also access the 2020/2021 KCSE results online from the KNEC portal; http://www.knec-portal.ac.ke/ Procedure
Visit the official KNEC schools’ portal by clicking the link above.
To login to the KNEC portal, Insert the User Name and Password which you used during the KCSE 2020/2021 registration.
Once inside the portal, you will see several boxes. First, under the box labelled ‘FROM INDEX’, input the index number of the first candidate (in full) and in the box labelled ‘TO INDEX NUMBER’ input the last candidate’s index Number. Click on ‘VIEW REPORT’.
Wait for the result slips to load. When all the slips are loaded, click on the Menu labeled ‘EXPORT’.
Select the format you would like to export the KCSE Result Slips e.g. ‘WORD’ or ‘PDF’ formats.
The KCSE Result slips will be downloaded to an offline storage in your computer.
You can then print the downloaded result slips. Finally, candidates can check their KCSE 2020 results by visiting their former schools a day after the official release of the exam.
KCSE Examination standardization is a mathematical process that is designed to remove variable elements from test scores and allow the candidates to be compared equally.
In other words, it is a way of giving equal value to the results of each test, regardless of the number of questions and the time allocated for completing them. For instance, an A in Mathematics is much lower than an A in History and Government.
Why Knec standardizes KCSE candidates’ Raw cores to Standard Scores
Standardization of raw scores to standard scores in a Knec examination is a process that involves adjusting the raw scores for each paper in the examination to allow for the differences in difficulty and in the extent to which scores scatter/ spread between the best and worst performing candidate (standard deviation).
In the process of standardization, the difficulty among the papers is measured in terms of mean raw scores obtained by the candidates, while the differences in scatter are measured in terms of the standard deviation. A raw score is a mark that is obtained by a candidate before standardization. It is the original mark obtained by the candidate in a test i.e., the number of correctly answered questions.
For instance, if a candidate gets 90 marks out of 100 in a paper, then the raw mark for the candidate is 90. The mean raw score of a test is calculated by dividing the candidates’ total marks by the number of candidates taking the test. The standard deviation of a score is measured by the number of units that score is from the mean score.
This process is done by using a computerized system.
In order to create a standardized score, a reference table called a ‘look-up table’ is created for each test paper that is written and the table is specific to that test paper because it takes account of the difficulty of the paper.
The minimum standardized score is derived from the look-up table and the actual number will vary, depending on the average score of all those taking the test. The standard scores are a measure of relative performance and have the ability to tell us how a candidate has performed in comparison to the other candidates.
These scores are essential when results from different papers must be combined to give an overall total as is the case in the KCSE examination and are useful for comparing relative performance of candidates from subject to subject or from year to year.
Once the raw scores have been standardized, the cut-off scores for Grade A to E are identical for all subjects and therefore maintained at the same level from year to year. The standardized scores are then used for reporting candidates’ performance.
Does standardization affect the candidate’s position?
When the scores are standardized the relative positions of the candidates remain unchanged; the top candidate in each subject still remains at the top.
The standard scores are essential if scores from several examination papers are to be added to give a total score. It is therefore desired that each paper should contribute equally to the total score.
Standardized test scores are scores that are obtained from a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or “standard” manner. Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner.
Release Of Examinations KCSE 2020 Results
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) wishes to bring the following information to the attention of all institutions presenting candidates for the KNEC examinations:
Examination Results Slips and Printouts
Each of the institutions that enter candidates for the KNEC examinations shall receive a hard copy of the institution’s examination results printout and result slips which captures the following information:
1. Institution’s Code and Name
This appears on the top left side of the printout. The institution’s code is a unique number by which an examination centre is identified by the Council. This is the number that an institution should always quote whenever communicating with KNEC.
2. Candidates Details
Below the institution’s name and code are details of the candidates. These details include the index number of the candidate, year of examination, gender, individual subject grades and the mean grade. The important features of the examination results are as indicated below:-
X – denotes an absent candidate. A candidate is declared absent if he/she did not sit for one or all papers in the examination. However, for the KCPE examination results, the symbol AB indicates an absence;
Y- denotes that the candidate was involved in an examination irregularity. For the KCPE examination results, the symbol 00 indicates an irregularity;
P- denotes that the candidate’s examination results have been pended due to infringement on the entry requirements for the examination e.g. incorrect KCPE details for entry in KCSE examination;
W- denotes that the candidate’s examination results have been withheld on suspicion that the candidate has been involved in an examination malpractice and investigations are ongoing;
U- denotes ungraded examination results due to infringement of the awards criteria.
Mean Grade Award Descriptions
Mean grade will be X, if a candidate is absent in all subjects
Mean grade will be Y , if one or more subjects are cancelled.
Mean grade will be U, if the entry requirements for the KCSE examination are not met
Mean grade will be CRNM, if the course requirements for the Teacher education, Business and Technical examinations are not met
Mean grade will be P, if results are pended
Mean grade will be W, if the examination results are withheld;
The details of pended, withheld and irregularities are communicated to the institution through the Sub County Director of Education at the time of release of the examination results and are received by the institutions at the same time with the examination results.
Release Of Certificates
Once certificates for a specific examination are ready for collection/dispatch from KNEC, the institutions shall be informed through the mass and print media, Sub County Directors of Education and/or the heads of institutions:
All certificates for regular candidates are issued through the Heads of Schools/Institutions and to private candidates through the Sub County Directors of Education. The Kenya National Examinations Council reserves the right to withdraw a certificate for amendment or for any other reason should this be necessary.
Upon the release of KCPE and KCSE examinations, the candidates can access their results through SMS number provided during the official release of results. The KCPE candidates are expected to access their result slips through the KNEC website immediately after release of the examination in their respective schools.
In other words, it is a way of giving equal value to the results of each test, regardless of the number of questions and the time allocated for completing them. For instance, an A in Mathematics is much lower than an A in History and Government. Read more here;The latest KCSE grading systems for all subjects.
Why Knec standardizes KCSE candidates’ Raw cores to Standard Scores
Standardization of raw scores to standard scores in a Knec examination is a process that involves adjusting the raw scores for each paper in the examination to allow for the differences in difficulty and in the extent to which scores scatter/ spread between the best and worst performing candidate (standard deviation).
In the process of standardization, the difficulty among the papers is measured in terms of mean raw scores obtained by the candidates, while the differences in scatter are measured in terms of the standard deviation.
A raw score is a mark that is obtained by a candidate before standardization. It is the original mark obtained by the candidate in a test i.e., the number of correctly answered questions.
For instance, if a candidate gets 90 marks out of 100 in a paper, then the raw mark for the candidate is 90. The mean raw score of a test is calculated by dividing the candidates’ total marks by the number of candidates taking the test.
The standard deviation of a score is measured by the number of units that score is from the mean score.
This process is done by using a computerized system.
In order to create a standardized score, a reference table called a ‘look-up table’ is created for each test paper that is written and the table is specific to that test paper because it takes account of the difficulty of the paper.
The minimum standardized score is derived from the look-up table and the actual number will vary, depending on the average score of all those taking the test.
The standard scores are a measure of relative performance and have the ability to tell us how a candidate has performed in comparison to the other candidates. These scores are essential when results from different papers must be combined to give an overall total as is the case in the KCSE examination and are useful for comparing relative performance of candidates from subject to subject or from year to year.
Once the raw scores have been standardized, the cut-off scores for Grade A to E are identical for all subjects and therefore maintained at the same level from year to year.
The standardized scores are then used for reporting candidates’ performance.
Does standardization affect the candidate’s position?
When the scores are standardized the relative positions of the candidates remain unchanged; the top candidate in each subject still remains at the top.
The standard scores are essential if scores from several examination papers are to be added to give a total score. It is therefore desired that each paper should contribute equally to the total score.
Standardized test scores are scores that are obtained from a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or “standard” manner.
Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner.
KCSE 2020 Results Through SMS- Receiving your 2020-2021 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results through SMS code is the fastest way of accessing your results. In case you are wondering how to send the SMS so as to receive the KCSE 2020 results, then here is a simplified procedure.
Simply follow the prompts below and indeed you will receive you KCSE 2020 very fast;
Step 1: Simply go to Messages (SMS) on your phone. Open a new SMS.
Step 2: Enter your KCSE 2020 index number in full (11 digits) followed by the word ‘KCSE’. Do not leave a space between your index number and the word ‘KCSE’. See this example for your guide; 43710142001KCSE. Do not use the random number given during the examination period!
Step 3: The official KNEC SMS Code for the KCSE 2020 results is 20076. Enter this as the recipient and send your message. Remember that this SMS will cost you Sh25. Do not send the SMS again until you confirm that the first one was not delivered. You will need to exerciser patience as this SMS may delay when many individuals are sending requests.
Step 4: You will receive an SMS from KNEC with your KCSE 2020 results. The SMS will contain your name, school, index number, scores in your subjects and the mean grade.Counter confirm if indeed the details shown match with your credentials.
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Kisii County’s Elimu Academy emerged the top school in the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations. The school recorded a mean score of 397.79 marks out of 500.
kisii Embasi (388.40) and Set Green Hill (381.80) scooped the second and third positions, respectively. Get the full ranking of all primary schools in Kisii county plus ranking per sub counties, here. (Remember to download the pdf file containing individual schools’ performances and other details, below)
Kisii County Top 10 best performing primary schools in the KCPE 2020 examinations.
Here are the top 10 best schools in the county during the KCPE 2020 examinations (Get the full ranking of all schools in Kisii County below this table).
POS
Sub County
SCHOOL
MSS 2020
1
KISII CENTRAL
ELIMU ACADEMY
397.79
2
KITUTU CENTRAL
KISII EMBASI
388.40
3
KITUTU CENTRAL
SET GREEN HILL
381.80
4
KITUTU CENTRAL
ST.VINCENT DEPAUL BOYS
380.00
5
GUCHA
WISDOM ACADEMY
379.31
6
KITUTU CENTRAL
IMPERIAL PRI
376.00
7
KENYENYA
EXCEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
375.83
8
KISII SOUTH
PRECIUOS HOPE
371.2
9
GUCHA
ELSA ACADEMY
370.00
10
KITUTU CENTRAL
GREENVALLEY ACAD
369.33
Full ranking of all the primary schools in the KCPE 2020 examinations- Kisii County
A total of 27 teachers will face disciplinary action from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) over cheating allegations in the 2020-2021 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams. This revelation has been made by Education Cabinet Secretary professor George Magoha.
Magoha says a total of 27 officials were relieved of their various duties as centre managers, supervisors or invigilators over allegations of violating regulations guiding the administration of examinations. Teachers who were involved in the irregularities will face disciplinary action from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
“As a Ministry, we will be presenting the list of teachers believed to be behind some of the examination offences to the TSC for action.” He reported.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed the Ministry to crack the whip on teachers who indulge in examinations cheating and leave the candidates alone. Consequently, all the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) candidates who sat the 2020-2021 exams received their results.
This latest development will see the TSC act tough on teachers facing cheating allegations as the government seeks to stem the vice.
Apart from disciplinary action from the Commission, the teachers may also face charges in the court of law.
According to the KNEC Act No. 29 of 2012, offences and Penalties stated in Sections 27 to 40 for cases of examination irregularities will apply.
For instance, any person who gains access to examination material and knowingly reveals the contents, whether orally or in writing, to an unauthorized party, whether a candidate or not, will be in violation of Section 27 of the Act and the penalty will be imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or a fine not exceeding two million shillings or both.
Cheating cases
CS Magoha says the KCSE 2020 examinations did not leak and that all attempts to expose examination papers were thwarted in a timely manner in a few centers across the country.
” We experienced a number of cases where examination officials attempted to open the papers with the intention of exposing them to candidates before the actual examinations started. We thwarted these efforts in a few centres countrywide, some of which I released to you during my weekly briefs,” CS Magoha says.
He adds that 37 civilians, including three university students and two businessmen, were arrested for attempting to engage (or assist) in examination irregularities. Also Fifty-three cell phones were confiscated from candidates at examination rooms during the exercise.
During the 2019 KCSE exams, close to 100 mobile phones were collected from various examination centres even as more than 10 impersonators were apprehended in Kisii. They had connived with unscrupulous people to produce fake photo albums to give the impression they were genuinely KNEC registered candidates for KCSE.
In Nairobi’s Eastleigh, 35 mobile phones were collected from a single centre. There were some cases of individuals who were attempting early exposure of examination papers, among other ills.
All those involved in these attempts were apprehended.
And determined to stem examinations irregularities attempts, KNEC still cancelled 1, 309 individual results for candidates from these failed cases of cheating.
The forms of cheating were manifest in the use of mobile phones, carrying unauthorized materials to examination rooms, and collusion.
Of the 1,309 candidates whose results were cancelled, 1,158 engaged in collusion in a bid to cheat in the exam, 101 were found with unauthorised materials in the exam room while 47 were found with mobile phones.
Two candidates will miss their results for impersonation while one other caused disturbance, hence cancellation of their results.
However, the number of cases of irregularities is much lower than the 4,519 cancelled in the 2018 KCSE.
In 2019, a total 658 KCSE results were withheld for routine checks on small details, including accuracy of their names and registration details. These results will be released to candidates as soon as the verification process is completed.
KCSE 2020-2021 Results for the whole school: You can easily download the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results for the whole school. This can be done online through the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) portal.
Step by step guide on how to download the KCSE 2020 results for the whole school.
Here is a simplified procedure on how to download the KCSE 2020 for the whole schools (For all candidates).
Step 1: Go to your browser (any browser like Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Fire Foxe..) and type the following official Knec portal address; http://www.knec-portal.ac.ke/.
Remember that you can get all KCSE 2020 results analysis, ranking of schools and candidates here; Knec News Portal.
Step 2: In the next step, User Name and Password which you used during the KCSE 2020 registration. This will enable you to log into the Knec portal.
Step 3: Once inside the portal, you will see several boxes. Click the one indicated ‘Results analysis’.
