- On Saturday, Knec admitted that there were 133 candidates who were awarded the wrong marks in some subjects.
- Knec CEO David Njengere added that Knec also received queries from candidates with low marks in some of the subjects, mainly in English and Kiswahili.
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Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has reacted to an admission by the examination body Knec over the presence of errors in the results of some KCPE candidates who sat this year's exam.
On Saturday, Knec admitted that 133 candidates were awarded the wrong marks in some subjects.
"Knec has reviewed all the appeals and found that there were 133 candidates affected," Knec CEO David Njengere said.
But in a video message on his X handle, Owino said the government had let students and parents down by releasing faulty results.
"I ask President William Ruto to move with speed and talk to the Kenya National Examination Council to ensure that the mistakes made both voluntarily and involuntarily are corrected," he said.
Owino said Knec released the wrong results because they rushed.
"The government has failed us, the government has failed parents and students who sat for the examinations," he said.
"We should not hurry just to release the results to be seen as competent. Releasing wrong results shows a lot of incompetency in our system," he added.
The Ministry of Education released the 2023 KCPE examination results for 1,406,557 on Wednesday, November 23, three weeks after candidates wrote the papers.
Njegere admitted that they have been receiving appeals from some affected schools on dissatisfaction with their results as received through the SMS code 40054.
Njengere added that Knec also received queries from candidates with low marks in some of the subjects, mainly in English and Kiswahili.
He, however, assured the affected learners that the cases have been addressed and results updated appropriately.
Further, the Knec boss revealed that results for some candidates were misaligned and marks and grades in Kiswahili placed in the Kenyan Sign Language section.
He further said there were cases where grades in Science and Social Studies and Religious Education were truncated incorrectly and were missing the plus (+) and minus (-) signs as expected.
"The error affected only the SMS results due to configuration issues as the results in the KNEC portal are accurate," Njengere said.
But Owino said the examination council should not try to apportion blame on the service provider since they were not involved in the examination management process.
"They should not blame the system for dispensing the SMSs, that is not a problem in this case. The problem in this case is the information that is being released to the students," he said.
"It's how the papers were marked, it's how the whole process was conducted."