The marking exercise of the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations has been completed. Examiners spent a record time of about two weeks (14 days) to have all the papers marked.

After the marking exercise, the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) will take a few days to moderate the candidates’ scores before they are officially released.

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Table of Contents
1. KCSE 2020 results announcement date
2. How to receive KCSE 2020 Results through SMS

Most papers had been fully marked by Sunday 2nd May 2021, with just a few remaining. Examiners in Mathematics Paper 2, CRE Paper 1, Chemistry Paper 2, Biology and History were the first ones to have the KCSE 2020 examination papers fully marked.

KCSE 2020 Results Announcement Date

According to sources familiar with the exercise, the KCSE 2020 results will officially be released by Friday 7th May, 2021. This is within the period earlier announced by the Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha. The CS had indicated that the results would be out by the 10th of May, 2021.

How to receive the KCSE 2020 Results

There are various ways of getting your KCSE 2020 results from Knec; after they have been officially announced. These include: Using the Knec SMS Code, visiting the Knec online portal and going to your former school to collect your results.

Getting your KCSE 2020 results through the Knec SMS Code 20076.

Getting your KCSE 2020 results through the Knec SMS code remains the fastest way of accessing your results. See how to go about it, below.

Step No.	Required Action
Step 1	Go to Messages on your mobile phone and select new message
Step 2	In the new message window, type in your KCSE 2020 index number in full followed by the word ‘KCSE’
Step 3	This is an example of how your index should look like;
Step 4	Check the index number again and if satisfied it is correct, the, send the message to the KNEC Official SMS Code 20076.
Step 5	Wait for the reply from Knec with your full KCSE 2020 results.