The 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results were released by the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) on Thursday, January 9th, 2025.
Unlike in previous years, candidates will not be able to access the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results through mobile phone SMS code.
The checking of results via sms was discontinued by former Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Ezekiel Machogu.
Candidates can access individual results online through a link on the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) website (https://resullts.knec.ac.ke).
They will be required to enter their index number and any of their names per their KCSE registration data.
Once you log in on the website, press the ‘KSCE Results’ icon.
The results will be available immediately after release by the Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba.
CS Ogamba was at New Mitihani House, South C, Nairobi when releasing the results.
However, immediately after the results were announced, the Kenya Online News noted that the KNEC website was down.
CS Ogemba advised any candidates with trouble accessing their results to call KNEC through the toll-free number 0800724900 or 0800721410.
Official result slips will be accessible through examination centres where the candidates sat for their exams. The 2024 KCSE exams took place in 10,755 centres, with a record-high of 965,501 candidates sitting the exams, an increase from 903,138 in 2023.
Some 965,512 candidates took their KCSE exams across 10,755 centres last year.
For the first time since KCSE’s inception, female candidates outnumbered their male counterparts; 480,310 male candidates sat last year’s exam while 482,202 were female.
Some 1,693 candidates scored grade A, while those who attained the minimum university cut-off grade of C-plus and above were 246,39, representing 25.53 per cent.
Other 46,889 candidates meanwhile attained over C-minus and above (49.41%), while those with D-plus and above were 605,774 (62.76%).
At the same time, 840 candidates found to have engaged in exam irregularities had their results cancelled.
“The results of 2,829 candidates suspected to have been involved in exam malpractices have been withheld pending completion of investigations that should be completed within 30 days from today,” the education minister added.
The marking of exams concluded on December 13, 2024, after an extensive effort by examiners across 35 designated marking centres.
This was after the ministry witnessed errors during the release of the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams.
