KNEC: How to Check KCSE Results 2024 Free

KNEC, the Kenya National Examinations Council, which sets and administers the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination, has released the KCSE 2024 results.

Through the Ministry of Education, Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba announced the results today, Thursday, 9 January, shortly after briefing President William Ruto at State House, Nairobi.

The Ministry of Education and KNEC share test results to help families and educators understand the performance of Kenyan secondary schools each academic year and compare them, maybe, with previous years. Some 965,512 candidates took their KCSE exams across 10,755 centres last year.

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How to check 2024 KCSE results for free on your phone

For candidates, parents, teachers, and everyone else, individual KCSE 2024 results are accessible online via a link available on the official KNEC website.

Alternatively, one can follow these simple steps:

1. Visit KNEC: KCSE Results Checker at https://results.knec.ac.ke/
2. Enter the candidate’s index number for KCSE 2024
3. Input one of their names
4. Click on the ‘View Results’ button to display the results on the screen

Performance overview

The 2024 examinations recorded the highest number of qualifiers for university admission since the 2016 structural reforms led by the then Education CS, Fred Matiang’i: 1,693 candidates scored grade A, while 840 had their results cancelled. Candidates achieving a grade of C+ and above surged to 246,391, up from 201,133 in 2023.

A total of 353,154 candidates who sat the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams, however, scored a mean grade of D plain and below.

Keep in mind that test results are just one measure of student achievement.

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