KNEC Announces Exams To Be Done In June 2024

OURU Frankline | April 24, 2024 | EDUCATION | No Comments

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KNEC Announces Exams To Be Done In June 2024. In June 2024, the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC)has selected various schools that that will offer grade 9 assessments to the learners.

While speaking at the Colle of Insurance in Nairobi dueting the Inaugural Symposium on Competency-Based Assessment, the KNEC CEO said this exams will be part of the preparations for summative assessment that will be administered at grade 9.

Njengere while speaking said the the Council is preparing tools that will be used in grade 9 assessment and therefore need to be piloted in select schools to check their effectiveness.

“By October, we will issue sample papers to inform every learner at Junior School of how they will be assessed at Grade 9,” Njengere narrated.

Njengere brought this to the attention of education stakeholders who had convened during this inaugural symposium basically to discuss the areas of common interest in the implementation of the CBC curriculum.

In 2012 a taskforce recommended that KNEC changes its identity something that necessitated the grade 9 assessments for pupils.

This taskforce recommended KNEC transitioning into an assessment Council and move away from one final exam to nurturing the learners’s potentials by administering Continuous Assessments.

Therefore, by implementing this recommendation, learners will not be sitting for the Kenya Certificate of Primary and Secondary Exams as it has always been.

KNEC Announces Exams To Be Done In June 2024

Although the Kenya National Examination Council has mentioned of these assessments, it has not specified which schools will be used to pilot the Inaugural of these grade 9 tests.

Once the grade 9 learners sit for the actual grade 9 assessments, they will now transition to grade 10, 11 and 12 in Senior Secondary Schools.

At senior School, learners will have an option of selecting the career path he/she wants to go to. The various career pathers these learners will choose from include;