The Kenya National Examinations Council, Knec, has released the KCSE 2022/2023 Projects & Practicals Instructions. Get all the details below;

SUBJECT: INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONDUCT OF THE YEAR 2022 KCSE PROJECTS AND PRACTICALS FOR GROUP IV AND V SUBJECTS

2022 KCSE PROJECTS GUIDELINES

The administration of the 2022 KCSE commenced with projects and practical performance for the group IV subjects i.e., Art & Design (442/3), Agriculture (443/3),  Woodwork  (444/2),  Metalwork  (445/2),   Building Construction (446/2) and Computer Studies (451/3). 

In this regard, The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) wishes to guide as follow?:

• The instructions for KCSE subjects with a Project component were uploaded to the KNEC website: knec-portal.ac.ke as per the 2022 KCSE timetable.
• All Principals or Sub County Directors of Education (in the case of private candidates) should access the instructions by logging on to the KNEC website knec-portal.ac.ke and clicking   on   2022   Project/Practical button to download all the instructions related to the subjects the candidates are registered for.
• The Principal/Subject teacher or Sub County Director of Education (for private candidates) should access the instructions by logging into the KNEC Project/Practical portal using the User Code and Password for the examination

• A user manual is available on the KNEC projects portal guiding on how to log into the projects portal to download the advance instructions, key in the candidates’ scores, upload photographic evidence, download and print reports on the

1. 5 It is important for all Principals, Subject teachers and Sub County Directors of Education to take note of the following innovations which KNEC has put ,in place to guide the assessment of Group IV Projects:

• The Projects’ assessment will have two (02) key milestones:

Milestone I, which must be uploaded by 31^st July 2022 Milestone II, which must be uploaded by 31^st October 2022

• At the end of each milestone, the Subject Teachers are expected to key in the candidates’ scores and upload the pictorial evidence on the Project The pictorial evidence should be a group photograph of the candidates at their workstations in either Graphic Interface Format ( .gif) or JPEG (.jpg) format

1.5..3 Milestone I scores must be keyed in and uploaded by 31.5t Ju!y 2022 and Milestone II by 31.5t October 2022 as elaborated in the schedule below:

Table 1  Schedule for uploading the 2022  KCSE      examination Group IV subjects project scores.

1.5.4   The project portal will only be accessible for keying in and uploading of milestone I from 1^st to 31^st July 2022 and milestone II from ist to 315t October 2022.

• It is the responsibility of .the Sub County Directors of Education (for private candidates) or Principals to ensure the project work is done by the individual candidates without assistance and that the candidates’ scores are keyed in within the specified

• A penalty of five hundred shillings {Kes. 500.00) per candidate will be charged for failure to upload the scores within the specified

• _ The Kenya National Examinations . Council   will closely monitor   the project progress and authenticity of the scores of all the candidates who registered for the 2022 KCSE Project/Practical

• The school and individual candidates will be expected to compile and maintain a portfolio (file) of evidence on the progress of the Project work to be presented for assessment and

• It is important for all Sub County Directors of Education (for private candidates), Principals, Subject teachers, and candidates to note that all documents relating to assessment and conduct of examinations are confidential and must be handled as such, at all

2..0 GUIDELINES FOR KCSE 2022 ORAL/ AURAL/  KCSE PRACTICAL PAPERS

• ,The advance instructions for Art and Design Paper 2 (442/2) and Computer Studies Paper 2 (451/2) practical papers will be uploaded on the schools’ Project portal by 30^th September, 2022 to enable schools to prepare materials in time for the

• Keying in and uploading of candidates’ scores for KCSE examination papers with Oral, Aural and practical components for French Paper 3 (501/3), German Paper 3 (502/3), Arabic Paper 3 (503/3), Kenyan Sign Language Paper 3 (504/3) and Music Paper 1 (511/1) will be done by the assessors after the assessment of the candidates on the examination day as per the assessment

• Keying in and uploading of Home Science practical ( 441/3) candidates’ scores will be done by the subject teachers after the assessment of the candidates on the examination day as per the assessment

3.0 EVIDENCE OF UPLOADED SCORES

All Principals/Subject teachers or Sub County Directors of Education (for private candidates) are expected to download the candidates’ scores report (in PDF format), print a hard copy of the uploaded scores for each milestone and maintain it as evidence.

This is applicable to the subjects with a project and Home science ( 441/3) practical’s only.

4.0 HOST CENTRE FOR PRIVATE CANDIDATES

The Sub County Directors of Education with private candidates registered for Group Subjects IV with a projec;t component should inform KNEC in writing on identified schools that are hosting the private candidates for the project/practical work.

5.0     You are kindly requested   to facilitate and ensure compliance   to the above instructions.

6.0     The  Council  thanks·    you  for  your  continued   support  in  administration  of  KCSE papers with projects and practical components.