Sample examination papers of the Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment are free, the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has announced.
Kenya National Examination Council chief executive officer David Njegere said the sample papers are available on the council’s portal for schools to access.
“These papers are free. We know there are enterprising Kenyans who will want to download them and start selling them to schools,” CEO Njegere said.
Njegere warned Kenyans against selling the papers to schools
or candidates.
He noted that this year, KNEC will administer the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) to the third cohort of the Competency-Based Curriculum and the Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment to the first cohort that has just joined grade nine.
“We will also administer the Kenya Prevocational Level Education to an estimated 5306 candidates with special needs,” he noted.
He noted that in readiness for the Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment, KNEC undertook a pilot in July 2024 administering assessment to 235 schools sampled from all counties.
He said the findings were used to develop the assessment blueprint.
The five-day pilot of Grade 9 summative assessment tests was administered to more than 5,000 learners.
KJSEA is the assessment that replaced the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE.)
Of the 5,875 learners who were assessed, 5,125 learners followed the regular curriculum while 750 have special needs.
Some 30 special needs schools were purposively sampled with representation from the following categories: Visual impairments, hearing impairments, and Physical Disabilities.
A total of 25 learners were randomly sampled from each of the participating schools.
Other than the assessment KNEC administered questionnaires to learners that seek to indicate their personality and interest.
The exam began on October 28 with 965,501 candidates sitting the assessment across 10,755 exam centres across the country.
The government contracted 32,800 examiners this year, up from 29,876 in 2023, to ensure timely and accurate marking.
According to Njegere, A total of 965,501 candidates registered for the KCSE examination, recording a 6.89 per cent increase in candidature, when compared to the 903,260 candidates presented for the examination in 2023.
"I wish to commend all the Centre Managers for the efforts made to ensure that all candidates were registered, accurately and within the stipulated timeframes," he said.
