Last Updated on January 3, 2023
Are you interested in checking KCPE Results 2023? Here’s how you can get your KCPE results once they’re released.
The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) is a certificate awarded to students after completing the approved eight-year course in primary education in Kenya. Here’s a detailed guide on how to check KCPE results. Keep reading for more information.
Primary education in Kenya begins at the age of 5 to 7 after completion of a year of kindergarten commonly known as Nursery School or pre-unit. The first class or year of primary school is known as Standard 1, the final year as Standard 8, and primary school children are known as pupils. The school year at both primary and secondary levels begins in January and ends in November. Students get 3 school vacations in April, August, and December.
Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) is administered in Primary Education in Kenya under the Ministry of Education. Every year this exam time conducted in the second week of November and takes four days.
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Subjects in KCPE
The subjects examined are Maths, English, Swahili, Social Studies, Science, and Religious Studies (Christian/Islamic/Hindu). Social Studies includes a bit of Kenyan History, Civil education, the current County system of government as well as all the Religious Studies. Each subject is worth a maximum of 100 marks. Each candidate is, therefore, able to earn a maximum of 500 marks.
How To Check KCPE Results
Kenya National Examinations Council allows candidates and their parents to check the KCPE exam results online and via SMS. Sending your index number to 22252 or on the KNEC website.
Check KCPE Results Online
The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination is taken after one completes his primary (elementary) education. This is when one is in standard eight. After completing the exam, one can proceed to secondary school.
Results are then announced by the Minister for Education some three or four days after Christmas day. Students can print KCPE Examination Result Slip online through KNEC Portal online. Check below for details steps.
- Step 1: Open Your Laptop or Mobile Web Browser.
- Step 2: In the Address Bar type “www.knec-portal.ac.ke“
- Step 3: Find “2022 Online Result Slip“.
- Step 4: Click on the option.
- Step 5: KCPE – RESULT SLIPS window will open.
- Step 6: Enter Your “User Name” and “Password”.
- Step 7: Click on the “Login” Button.
- Step 8: Enter Your “KCPE 2022 Index Number”.
- Step 9: Enter Your “Examination Year” as 2022.
- Step 10: Click on the “Find” Button.
- Final step- Subject-wise results of KCPE 2022 will display.
Check KCPE Results via SMS
Once KCPE examination results are published by KNEC, the results can be viewed or downloaded from KNEC Portal and KCPE Results can also access by SMS by using Safaricom, Airtel, and Orange networks for a couple of Kenyan shilling (KES) as per charges.
- Send SMS with your <<Index Number>> to 22252
- Send SMS with your <<04122101001>> to 22252
KNEC Address
Chief Executive Officer
P.O. Box: 73598 00200,
Nairobi, Kenya.
Head Office
National Housing Corporation (NHC) House,
Aga Khan Walk,
Tel: (+254 – 020) 317412; 317413; 317419; 317427; 341027; 341050; 341071; 341098; 341113; 2213381
Fax: (+254 – 020) 2226032
Email: info@knec.ac.ke
Mobile: 0720741001/0732333860
Website: https://www.knec-portal.ac.ke/
Website: https://www.knec.ac.ke