In the new education system, expectant mothers and hospitalised candidates will not have to take exams in hospital.
PS for Curriculum Reforms Fatma Chege said reforms from early childhood and continuous assessments will enable an assessment under the Competency-Based Curriulum.
Chege urged principals at the Kenya Secondary School Heads Association meeting to be part of the transition.
This approach is different from the 8-4-4 system where students would sit KCPE and KCSE exams in hospital because they didn't want to sit exams later.
“By the time, the child is transitioning from primary to junior secondary, that learner will have been assessed several times," Chege said.
She said the continuous assessments conducted from Grade 1 to Grade 6 will be enough to determine a student’s capability.
“By the time, they're finishing Grade 6, they will have accumulated around 60 per cent of an expected 100 per cent,” Chege said.
She said the national assessment will allow teachers and the exam council to determine performance.
She emphasised CBC aims to do away with the notion that national exams are do-or-die tests.
“The pressure to sit exams after eight years has been eased out. You find girls in the ward, giving birth, and an exam is waiting for them," she said.
Previously Education CS George Magoha said the ministry consults the hospital before administering exams.
“By the time we take exams to that student in hospital, the doctors have assessed the patient and advised if they are fit to sit the papers or not," Magoha said at Precious Blood Riuta.
Starting from primary and secondary school to institutions of higher learning, Chege said the department has already inducted varsity bosses in the CBC.
Universities, which have not yet experienced CBC, have already been trained on curriculum reforms.
She urged varsities to work with the curriculum developer, especially in research to get more findings on the reforms.
In preparation for junior secondary school, next year the ministry has implemented several policies..
To deal with infrastructure challenges, 10,000 classrooms will be constructed.
The first phase was at 99 per cent in April, the Education ministry said.
The second construction phase will begin in May and should be completed by July.
The teacher's training for the curriculum is at the junior secondary school level.
The training of 60,000 JSS teachers started on Monday and is to end on May, 13.
Students have three weeks to register for the three national exams set to be administered in the remainder of the year.
Grade 6 learners are being registered to sit the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment, which will allow their transition to junior secondary.
In January, 1.5 million learners under the new CBC will transition from Grade 6 to junior secondary school.
