Free lunch for KCPE candidates in Mwiki school

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Kenya Certificate of Primary Education  (KCPE) sets to start tomorrow,candidates at Mwiki Primary School in Githurai, Kiambu county will  be treated free lunch during the exams period.
Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu  pledged to provide free lunch for candidates during his visit in the school.
“Education is one of the most important ingredients to a happy successful life”,said Governor  Waititu.

 

Class eight candidates will get free lunch for three days during the KCPE examinations which kicks off tomorrow.

During his visit, the county boss also distributed success cards and mathematical sets to all the candidates.

Data from Knec shows that a total of 1.6 million candidates will write this year’s Form Four and Standard Eight exams.

Knec acting Chief Executive Officer Mercy Karogo said some 1.06 million pupils will sit for KCPE exams and another 663,820 for the KCPE tests. Ms Karogo said 323,113 girls and 340,707 boys are KCSE candidates, while 529,124 girls and 531,668 boys are listed for KCPE. Maths and chemistry will be done on the first day of the KCSE written papers.

Home science, woodwork and computer studies will complete the KCPE examinations on November 28.

The registration data, however, shows that there are more candidates sitting the examinations this year.

Last year, a total of 1.5 million candidates registered for the two examinations. Some 993,718 sat for KCPE and another 611,952 did the KCSE tests.

The entire government machinery has been mobilized to monitor the Form Four and Standard Eight examinations.
Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed in consultation with a multi-sectoral team of government ministries  has mobilized top government officials, including all her Cabinet colleagues, to participate in the monitoring exercise as she seeks to eliminate any irregularities.

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Some of the tough measures that will for the first time be adopted this year include the order that all center managers cannot transport examination materials to the centres unless accompanied by armed officers.
They have also been asked to ensure that examinations will only be placed in one of the examination rooms where all candidates, armed police and examination invigilators will be in full view.
The aim is to prevent a trend that developed last year where some schools prematurely opened the second paper of the day, usually starting at 11.30am thus exposing it to candidates just before the actual examination begun.
Centre managers, who are also school heads, are under instructions not to allow any examination official into the examination rooms with mobile phones.

Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams will kick off on Tuesday 30th October 2018. Rehearsals for the three-day examinations will be on Monday 19th October 2018.

The last paper will be on November 1 2018.

 

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