The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) website has crashed shortly after Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba announced the release of the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results.
The website, results.knec.ac.ke, may have been overwhelmed by traffic from 962,512 candidates eager to check their National examination results online.
This year, the Ministry of Education announced that the KNEC portal would be the sole platform for accessing the results, unlike in previous years when an SMS code was also available.
This announcement, comes as a sign of relief for Parents and Students, who were previously forced to Part with Ksh 25, for each SMS sent to check results.
However, moments after the results were released, candidates, parents, and schools attempting to access the portal were met with error messages.
To access the 2024 KCSE results one can check via the KNEC portal using this step.
Visit the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) portal; results.knec.ac.ke.
Key in your index number and any one of your registered name on the spaces provided.
Click on view results button and they will appear on the screen.
As of now, KNEC and the Ministry of Education have yet to release an official statement on the status of the website.
Meanwhile, The Cabinet Secretary of education Julius Ogamba has announced that the results of 840 students have been cancelled.
At the same time, Ogamba stated that the KCSE results of 2,829 students have been withheld.
CS Ogamba stated that the results were cancelled after the students were involved in exam irregularities.
“There were 840 Candidates who were involved in examinations irregularities in 2024 and their examination result6s have been cancelled,” Ogamba said.
According to the CS, candidates’ examination papers were personalized and anonymized to improve objectivity during marking and holding candidates personally responsible for any irregularities.
“The council is empowered in law as provided in KNEC handling of examination irregularities rules of 2015 legal notice no 132 of 2015 rule no 8 to withhold the results of any candidate or examination center suspected of having been involved in exam irregularities or malpractice pending completion of investigations,” CS Ogamba stated.
“To this end the results of 2, 829 candidates suspected to have been involved in examination irregularities have been withheld pending completion of investigations that should be completed within a period of 30 days from the official release of exams which is today.”
The CS revealed that 91 teachers aided students in exam irregularities and malpractices.
“It is unfortunate that a few contracted professionals and teachers are still insistent ruining the futures of our learners by subjecting them to examination malpractices,” said Ogamba.
“19 contracted professionals were reported to have been involved in aiding examination malpractices. Firme disciplinary action will be taken against such teacher.”
A total of 965,512 candidates registered for the 2024 KCSE exams an increase of 7.19 percent
The number of candidates with direct university entry qualifications of grade C+ and above was 246,391 students which translated to 25.3 percent.
There were 1, 693 or 0.18 percent candidates who obtained an overall grade A compared 1, 216 or 0.14 candidates in 2023.