The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) on Tuesday, April 9, admitted a mistake in the printing of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).

According to KNEC, the system glitch led to the omission of minus signs (-) for some grades. This meant that some students’ grades were printed as, for example, a D (plain) instead of a D- (minus).

This was revealed after Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu and KNEC Chief Executive Officer David Njengere were grilled by the National Assembly Education Committee to answer questions regarding

During the grilling session, the committee was informed that 3,018 candidates across 1,059 examination centres nationwide were affected by this error. 

Notwithstanding, with all due respect, KNEC expressed that the web-based entryway mirrored the exact outcomes and that disparities were exclusively in the printed ostensible rolls disseminated to schools.

KNEC further noticed that it had since conveyed revised printouts to impacted schools. MPs raised worries about the injury the impacted understudies experienced and the disarray in the blunders.

CS Ezekiel Machogu, further clarified that the Ministry of Education had taken steps to prevent similar occurrences in the future.

“A technical team was constituted, with representation from the Ministry of ICT and the Digital Economy, the National Computer and Cybercrimes Coordination Unit and the ICT Authority,” Machogu stated.

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