George Magha, the cabinet secretary for education, has released dates for grade 6 students to choose the junior high schools they want to attend.
From August 15 to August 30, the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) will activate the portal, at which point students in Grade 6 will need to choose Junior High Schools in order to be placed.
CS Magoha, who spoke to the media on Friday, July 22, said that the 1.27 million students in Grade 6 will take the national exam from November 28 to 30.
Exam results will account for 40% of the final score, with school-based assessments from Grades 4, 5, and 6 accounting for the remaining 60%.
According to CS Magoha, 2.51 million students will begin secondary school in January 2023.
He added that after taking the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams, over 1.27 million students would graduate from sixth grade and another 1.24 million will enroll in high school.
The Grade 6 exam is scheduled for November, and KNEC has already provided instructions for how it will be administered.
KNEC Chief Executive Officer David Njegere explained to school administrators that candidates would take a School-Based Assessment (SBA) test in their home institutions, which will be graded by their teachers.
They will then register for the national exam after the evaluation’s results have been submitted to the portal.
After that, students will be given an assessment number, which functions as a substitute for the index number, and use it to register for the Kenya Intermediate Level Education Assessment (KILEA).
Five papers will be written by the students: English and Math on the first day, Integrated Science and Kiswahili on the second, and Creative Arts and Social Studies on the third.
The materials needed for the practical evaluations will be provided by the schools, with KNEC advising schools to improvise some of the resources at their disposal.
By the deadline that will be announced by KNEC, teachers will grade students’ responses and assign grades, which will then be published to the KILEA portal.
