How to check 2024 KCSE results on your phone

Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba released the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination results on Thursday.

Some 965,512 candidates took their KCSE exams across 10,755 centres last year.

They will be required to enter their index number and any of their names per their KCSE registration data.

CS Ogemba advised any candidates with trouble accessing their results to call KNEC through the toll-free number 0800724900 or 0800721410.

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 246,391, 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.