The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) issued new guidelines for the ongoing registration of the 2023 KCSE, KCPE and qualifying test examinations.
In a statement on Monday, February 13, the Council urged all candidates to fill in the order of their names as documented in their birth certificates.
Further, they ought to put the correct gender and year of birth before indicating the specific subjects they registered for.
Finally, if the candidate has any special needs and disabilities, they are required to fill in this information based on their different categories including visual impairments, hearing impairments or physical impairments.
The mandatory registration commenced on February 1, 2023, and will run until March 30, 2023.
However, the Council affirmed that there would be no late registration for the national examinations.
According to KNEC, the KCSE Qualifying Test (QT) is a test aimed at measuring a candidate’s ability to sit for the KCSE examination.
The examination targets candidates with a primary certificate other than KCPE as well as those with a foreign primary certificate received after less than eight years of primary school education.
The online registration of the exam is undertaken at the office of the County Director of Education.
Recently, KNEC CEO David Njeng'ere directed school principals to fill out the registration forms on behalf of the candidates and surrender the documents to the Council.
He added that no candidate would sit their exams if they were not registered.
"Registration of candidates is the first step towards administering an exam. Every centre has two months to make sure that all the candidates are registered," Njeng'ere stated during the release of the 2022 KCSE results on January 20, 2023.
According to the Ministry of Education, KCPE will be held between November 6, 2023, and November 9, 2023, while KCSE candidates would sit their exams between November 10, 2023, and December 1, 2023.
