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The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) is an academic certificate awarded to candidates upon completion of secondary education in Kenya. [1]The first KCSE exam was held in 1989 at the same time as the last Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education (KACE), which it replaced as the entrance requirement for Kenyan universities.
1] The 8-4-4 system that consists of 8 years of primary education, 4 years of secondary education, and 4 years of university education is attended by students who have completed two years of pre-school education (aged 3–6 years old). The system's main purpose was to improve the development of self-expression, self-discipline and independence.
The functions of the Kenya National Examinations Council are as follows: [2] Set and maintain examination standards, conduct public academic, technical and other national examinations within Kenya at basic and tertiary levels;
The same body also conducted and regulated the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), a certificate awarded to students after completing secondary education. KCPE and KCSE were both started in 1985 when the 8-4-4 system of education was introduced in Kenya.The last KCPE examination, under this system was done on November 1, 2023 at 11am.
In Kenya, the grading system varies according to overall performance of candidates in the national exam called Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). All grade thresholds change per year according to the intensity of the exam. As of 2019 Exghest Mean Grade (A) equated to the percentage of 81+.
[3] [4] The school has one of the lowest acceptance rates in the country. [5] During the 2019 admission cycle 70,921 applied for admission but only 432 were admitted (a 0.6 percent acceptance rate). [6] Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education national rankings from 2013 to present: In 2013 it was ranked 4th nationally. [7] [8]
Friends School Kamusinga (FSK), popularly known as Kamu/Frishka, is a Kenyan Quaker national school [2] established in 1956 and located in Kimilili, Bungoma County, Kenya.The school is located 409.9 kilometres from Kenya's capital city, Nairobi.
The National Geographic GeoBee (called the National Geographic Bee from 2001 to 2018, [1] also referred to as the Nat Geo Bee) was an annual geography contest sponsored by the National Geographic Society. The bee, held annually from 1989 to 2019, was open to students in the fourth through eighth grades in participating schools from the United ...