Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu announced that the Form One selection for the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam candidates will be completed by January 16.
Machogu said completion of the selection is aimed at giving parents adequate time to prepare their children for secondary school.
“The Ministry is determined to place the 2022 KCPE candidates in secondary schools as soon as possible. The actual Form One selection exercise for all categories of schools will be concluded on January 16, 2023,” he said.
Learners are placed based on factors such as their performance, their school choices and capacity of the schools.
The ministry also uses affirmative action to place learners in national schools where all top five candidates of either gender from every sub-county are placed in top schools based on their choices.
A total of 1,233,852 candidates sat for this year’s examinations with all qualifying for admission to Form One.
“All the candidates whose results I am releasing today will be admitted to Form One under the 100 per cent transition policy. There should be no case of a guardian or parent keeping their children at home when admission to Form One is opened up,” said Machogu.
Machogu revealed that a total of 620,965 candidates were boys accounting for 50.32 per cent of total candidates, while 612,887 candidates were girls, representing 49.7 per cent of students who sat for their exams.
