Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha has said that the official release of 2021 KCPE result will be done any day between Wednesday and Saturday this week.
This comes at a time when there are speculations that the marking of KCPE Insha and Composition Paper has been completed.
Magoha, who was speaking in Kayole during the inspection of the KCSE examinations, said that the date of announcement would largely depend on the availability of His Excellency the President.
“Anytime between Wednesday and Saturday. Depending on the availability of His Excellency the President, we should be able to tell our children how they have performed,” said Prof. Magoha.
This means that if the President will be available to release the exam then Thursday or Friday will be the likely days for the official release of 2021 KCPE results. The marking of multiple choice questions was completed last week and only composition and Insha papers were left.
KNEC had earlier changed the date for the examinees involved in marking the papers.
Initially the examiners were supposed to report for the marking exercise on 18th March 2021 but KNEC changed the date to 15th March.
In Alliance High School, the successful examinees were asked to report for the marking of Insha and Composition paper. “Change of Reporting Date for Examiners. You are expected to report to Alliance High School by 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Coordination begins immediately. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this change. Thank you,” read the message sent to one of the testers.
This year the council registered 1,225,507 candidates across 28,316 KCPE exam centres, while in 2020 1,191,752 candidates registered across 28,467 centres.
This represents an increase of 33,755 which represents 2.75 per cent.
The KCPE exam centers were served from 491 distribution centers.
Marking of multiple choice questions became easier with the acquisition of modern optical mark recognition, which scores the paper electronically.
OMR captures the marked data from the answer sheets of the candidates using special scanning.
The machines work with a dedicated scanning device that shines a beam of light onto the paper.
Contrast reflection at predetermined positions on a page is used to locate marked areas because they reflect less light than blank areas of paper.
With the new machines, scripts are marked in batches of 100 and 200 sheets, unlike the previous technology, which took hours. OMR machines are also used to accelerate the matching of Kiswahili Insha and English composition marks, which was previously done manually. Examiner two papers are still marked manually.
However, tallying of marks is no longer done through physical calculations.
After marking the insha and composition scripts, examiners will hand over the papers to the new machine, which will electronically tally the marks in record time.
