Exam Centre
Candidates will take a School-Based Assessment (SBA) exam in their home institutions, which will be graded by their teachers, according to a memo from KNEC Chief Executive Officer David Njegere to school administrators dated Tuesday, June 5.
They will then register for the national exam after the evaluation’s results have been submitted to the portal. The first assessments under the Competency-Based Curriculum will be the national ones (CBC).
Students registration
After that, each student will be given an assessment number, which functions as the test’s index number on the Kenya Intermediate Level Education Assessment (KILEA).
“KNEC should register students and give them a number. They have to have completed a School-Based Assessment at the intermediate level and uploaded the results of at least one SBA to the KNEC portal, according to Njegere’s statement.
The students, according to Njerege, will complete five papers: English and Math on the first day, Integrated Science and Kiswahili on the second, and Creative Arts and Social Studies on the third.
Exam Resources
Notably, the schools will be asked to improvise some of their available resources to give students the materials needed for the practical evaluations.
By the KNEC-communicated deadline, teachers will grade students’ responses and assign grades, which will be posted to the KILEA site.
The marking will be done with the aid of the resources at hand, and the results will be made public by the established standards. Except for composition and Kiswahili Insha, the KPSEA exams will be marked electronically because they are multiple-choice, he said.
The KNEC boss also mentioned that to assist instructors in becoming comfortable with the procedure, the testing organization will upload example KILEA papers on the portal by July 15, 2022.
“KNEC intends to give the first cohort of intermediate-level students a summative test called KILEA between November and December. For schools to access through their portals, we will upload samples of KILEA papers. You can make an informed planning decision with the help of this information.
Number of candidates
More than 1.25 million children were slated to take the exam needed to go into junior secondary school under the new system, according to June 4 Njerege article.
To verify their registration status, administrators, parents, and applicants can send an SMS to the number 20076 with the subject line “Exam” (Index Number).
The construction of CBC classrooms for junior secondary schools across the country has been under the supervision of George Magoha, cabinet secretary for education.