By A, KNA
The Kenya Primary School Education assessment (KPSEA) and Kenya Junior Secondary Assessment (KJSEA) have officially kicked off in Machakos with 67,662 students sitting for the national exams.
Learners in Grade 6 will undertake KPSEA exams from 27-30th October and transition to Junior school next year while the Grade 9 students will undertake KJSEA from Oct 27-6th Nov and transition to Senior school in January which is a major achievement for the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC).
According to Machakos Director of Education Margaret Mwirigi, while speaking to the media in her office on Monday, said that KPSEA learners in the county total 32,852 comprising 16,925 boys and 15,927 girls. While for KJSEA, there were a total of 34,810 students sitting for the exams with 17,712 boys and 17098 girls.
Mwirigi noted that they were fully prepared aadding so far, the transportation process and distribution of exams to schools had gone smoothly and all the centre managers have a list of authorized personnel within the examination centers in the sub counties with no hiccups experienced.
She commended Athi River sub county which had the highest number of KPSEA candidates at 8,260 and KJSEA 6,723, it was followed by Yatta sub county with KPSEA 4,226 and KJSEA 4782 then Mwala, Masinga, Machakos, sub counties followed closely and least being Kalama and Kangundo sub counties.
