Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) is a critical exam in Kenya that every student must take to proceed to secondary education.
The examination assesses students’ comprehension of the primary school syllabus, including Mathematics, Science, English, and Kiswahili.
Over the years, KCPE has been a significant determinant of students’ future, determining the secondary schools they join and, ultimately, their career paths.
Since its inception in the early 1980s, KCPE has undergone several transformations to make it more reliable, credible and relevant to the evolving education landscape.
Initially, the exam was only offered in the national languages, Kiswahili and English.
Later, it was expanded to include other subjects such as Science and Mathematics, and the marking system was standardized to ensure consistency and objectivity in grading.
With the advent of technology, checking KCPE results has become more accessible and convenient.
Instead of traveling long distances to examination centers to access their results, candidates can now check their results online or through SMS using their mobile phones.
In this article, we will explore the step-by-step process of checking KCPE results online and via SMS, and the significance of this examination in Kenya’s education system.
How to check KCPE results via SMS
This is a convenient and fast way of receiving the KCPE results, and you can only send the SMS once the results have been officially released.
- Send an SMS with your ‘Index Number’ to 20076
- The service is available for the network providers Safaricom, Airtel, and Telkom. This method will incur a cost, usually around 25 KES per SMS.
How to check KCPE results online
For this method, you only require your mobile phone or laptop and an active internet connection.
The candidates can also download their results by accessing the portal. However, once the results are released, there could be high traffic thus there could be some lagging.
Anyways, here’s how to check KCPE results via the KNEC Portal.
- Go to “www.knec-portal.ac.ke”
- Login to the portal with your username and password.
- Check for the “2022 Online Result Slip” and click on it
- The KCPE Result Slip window will open.
- Enter your ‘KCPE 2022 Index Number’
- Enter the required ‘Examination Year’ which is 2022
- Click on ‘Submit’
- Your KCPE results will be displayed after submitting.
How to download KCPE results slip
- Visit the official KNEC schools’ portal by using the link; https://www.knec-portal.ac.ke/. You will see the window below;
- Now, select ‘ON-LINE RESULT SLIP’. The window below will appear. To login to the KNEC portal, Insert the User Name (School Knec Code) and Password which you used during the KCPE 2022 registration. Click ‘Login’ as shown in the window below;
- Once inside the portal, you will see several boxes. First, under the box labelled ‘FROM INDEX’, input the index number of the first candidate (in full) and in the box labelled ‘TO INDEX NUMBER’ input the last candidate’s index Number. Click on ‘VIEW REPORT’.
- Wait for the result slips to load. When all the slips are loaded, click on the Menu labeled ‘EXPORT’.
- Select the format you would like to export the KCPE Result Slips e.g. ‘WORD’ or ‘PDF’ formats.
- The KCPE Result slips will be downloaded to an offline storage in your computer.
- You can then print the downloaded result slips.
It is important to note that;
X – denotes an absent candidate. A candidate is declared absent if he/she did not sit for one or all papers in the examination. However, for the KCPE examination results, the symbol AB indicates an absence.
Y – denotes that the candidate was involved in an examination irregularity. For the KCPE examination results, the symbol 00 indicates an irregularity.
P – denotes that the candidate’s examination results have been pended due to infringement on the entry requirements for the examination e.g. incorrect KCPE details for entry in KCSE examination.
W – denotes that the candidate’s examination results have been withheld on suspicion that the candidate has been involved in an examination malpractice and investigations are ongoing.
U – denotes ungraded examination results due to infringement of the awards criteria.
Mean Grade Award Descriptions
Mean grade will be X, if a candidate is absent in all subjects
Mean grade will be Y , if one or more subjects are cancelled.
Mean grade will be P, if results are pended
Mean grade will be W, if the examination results are withheld.
The details of pended, withheld and irregularities are communicated to the institution through the Sub County Director of Education at the time of release of the examination results and are received by the institutions at the same time with the examination results.
