Blow to 2023 KCPE students as the court accepts cases involving exam remarking.
The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) candidates from previous year no longer have chance of having their answer sheets remarked and retabulated thanks to the ruling of the High Court.
A complaint brought against the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) and Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu was dismissed by Judge Lawrence Mugambi.
Parents of students at Moi Primary School in Kabarak, Nakuru, had filed the case.
Despite the fact that the case involved “massive errors in the examination results,” the judge believed that the parents and their children had not, as required by law, challenged the results before Knec.
According to him, candidates must first request a review of their exam results from the Kenya National Examination Council Act, the country’s exam legislation, before requesting one from any other authority.
The judge stated that a student has the right to appeal to the National Examinations Appeals Tribunal if they feel wronged.
Consequently, the preliminary objection is successful. Thus, this petition is denied. I don’t assign costs to anything. Mutatis mutandis is the effect of the verdict, declared Justice Mugambi.
Moses Mbego filed a lawsuit against the Education Cabinet Secretary and the test authority, claiming it was unexpected that his kid received a lesser grade than his typically excellent performance.
Parents of Class Eight candidates at Set Greenhill Academy Mixed Day and Boarding and Junior School and Kitengela International School also filed a lawsuit in court, citing significant irregularities.
According to Mbego’s attorney Danstan Omari, he is upset that his son’s academic ability was not reflected in the results that were made public.
According to Omari, the applicants’ futures are being destroyed by the test board, and they are now complaining that the grades they received were unfair.
Omari stated, “It seems that the second respondent (Knec) is regrettably determined to harm the future of the Kenyan children.”
Omari claims that the Nakuru-based university has led the nation in academic performance for the past three years.
He claimed it was odd that the applicants from the institution saw a decline in their scores of more than 100 points.
According to him, parents were confident that their children had finished the coursework on time and were well-prepared for the high school entrance exam.
Omari says there’s no way to explain why Mbego’s son’s grades weren’t as good as they had been in the past.
Mbego claimed in his declaration of support that the marking process was hurried and that there were significant irregularities in the marks that were released.
“I am not happy with the marking system used for my child’s exams in the recently released KCPE. “I hope this court will consider the outcry from educators, learners, and the public following the release of the exam results and the claims of significant irregularities in the examination marking process,” Mbego prayed.
In a prior lawsuit brought before the court by the parents of Kitengela International, the majority of the school’s students received scores of 400 or more on the previous tests.
Nonetheless, the results of the national exams showed that its pupils only received 358 points or less.
In a letter to Knec, Kitengela expressed disappointment that the outcomes did not accurately represent the grades its children had been receiving.
Omari stated in court that the low marks he received from the examiners are now upsetting candidates.
He contended that a great deal of irregularity surrounding the examination process is known to the public.
Omari requested that the form one placement process be halted by the court until the matter is resolved.
The integrity of the marking process has been called into question due to widespread irregularities in the results of the 2023 KCPE exams, which is a matter of local notoriety.
Accordingly, Omari prayed that the court would take judicial notice of the outcry from teachers, students, and members of the public following the announcement of the exam results because there were allegedly serious anomalies in the marking of the examinations.
Blow to 2023 KCPE students as the court accepts cases involving exam remarking.
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