Results of the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination are set to be released on Thursday, November 23. This was the last KCPE to be done in the 8-4-4 system.
Education CS Ezekiel Machogu will officially release the results at the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) headquarters in South B, Nairobi.
A total of 1, 415, 315 candidates wrote the exams and about 1.2 million candidates sat the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA).
This will be the last KCPE results under the 8-4-4 education system in Kenya after the adoption of the Competency-Based Curriculum.
According to a communication from the Education Ministry, Cabinet Secretary (CS) Ezekiel Machogu will officiate the release of the examination results at the new Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) headquarters in South B, Nairobi.
About 1.4 million candidates undertook their KCPE exams and about 1.2 million did the KPSEA exams (Grade 6).
The Ministry of Education and telecommunications firm, Safaricom has to that effect released an SMS code to access results.2023 KCPE candidates can access their results by sending their index numbers to 40054 at Sh25 per SMS. The service is available on all mobile network service providers in the country and charges Sh25 per request.
To send the SMS you have to follow the format of IndexNumberKCPE without leaving a space between index number and the word KCPE. Alternatively one can check the results by visiting the KNEC portal to access them online.
After visiting the website, search for the KCPE results tab, the year you sat for the exams (2023) enter your index number, and submit to receive the results.
Some 1,415,315 candidates wrote the exams and about 1.2 million candidates sat the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA).
