The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has issued an update on the results slips of candidates who sat the 2024 exams.
In a statement on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, KNEC stated that it had dispatched all the results slips to the Sub-County Education Directors (SCDE) countrywide from where schools can access them.
“The 2024 KCSE Examination Result Slips have been dispatched to all Sub-County Directors of Education (SCDEs) offices countrywide,” KNEC revealed.
“Schools that presented candidates for the examination are advised to liaise with their SCDEs to collect the result slips.”
Students who sat the 2024 KCSE exams are expected to use the results slips to access various tertiary institutions of their choice or pursue various career paths of their liking with the document.
More candidates qualified for direct entry to universities in the country in the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams than in 2023.
While releasing the results of the exams at Mitihani House in Nairobi on Thursday, January 9, 2025, Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba stated that 2024 had recorded an increase in students who had attained grades C+ and above.
“The number of candidates with direct university entry qualification of grade C+ and above was 246,391 (25.53%) in the year 2024 28 KCSE examination compared to 201,133 (22.27%) in 2023,” CS Ogamba observed.
This represented slightly more than a quarter of the 962,512 candidates who sat the exams between October and November 2024.
Entry to TVET diploma
Ogamba equally revealed that nearly half of all the candidates who sat the 2024 KCSE qualified for direct entry into TVET Diploma courses.
“The number of candidates with grade C- (TVET Diploma) and above was 476,889 (49.41%) in the year 2024 KCSE examination compared to 401,216 (44.42%) in 2023,” Ogamba noted.
KNEC exams top performers
Similarly, 9,436 candidates scored A- in 2024 compared to 7,254 candidates scoring the same grade in the 2023 KCSE exams.
19,150 candidates attained the grade B+ in the 2024 exam against 18,078 in the 2023 examinations. 43,120 candidates scored B plain compared to 36,728 in 2023.
The 2024 exams equally registered more candidates scoring grade E compared to the year 2023. In 2024, 48,333 candidates scored E compared to 48,174 in 2023.
840 candidates who were found to have been involved in examination irregularities got their results cancelled while another 2,829 candidates had their results withheld on suspicion of irregularity.
