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Grade 10 Senior School Resources 2026: The Complete Teacher and Learner Guide

KCBErevision.co.ke is Kenya’s resource hub for Grade 10 Senior School. This page lists every document a teacher or learner needs for the 2026 academic year. It covers Grade 10 curriculum designs, schemes of work, lesson plans, records of work, notes, topical tests, term exams, holiday assignments, and revision papers. Every resource is organized by term and by pathway, so you can find exactly what you need in one search.

What is Grade 10 Senior School, and why does it matter in 2026?

Grade 10 is the first year of Senior School under Kenya’s Competency-Based Education (CBE) system. Three facts define this transition:

2026 is the first year Kenya has ever had a Grade 10 cohort, since these learners are the first to complete Grade 9 and sit the Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA).
Senior School runs from Grade 10 to Grade 12 and ends with a national exam
Every Grade 10 learner picks one of three pathways; STEM, Social Sciences, or Arts and Sports Science, and this choice shapes their timetable, their electives, and their teachers’ schemes of work for the next three years.

Because there is no precedent for Grade 10 in Kenya, schools cannot simply reuse old KCSE-era documents. Every resource on this page is built specifically for the CBE Senior School structure.

What subjects does a Grade 10 learner study?

A Grade 10 learner studies seven examinable subjects: four compulsory subjects and three electives from their chosen pathway. The compulsory subjects are the same for every learner, regardless of pathway.

Compulsory subjects: English, Kiswahili (or Kenyan Sign Language for learners with hearing impairment), Mathematics, and Community Service Learning.
Mathematics is not identical for every learner. STEM learners take Core Mathematics, while learners in the other two pathways take Essential Mathematics.
Physical Education and ICT are taught to every learner but are not examined at the national level.

Pathway	Focus	Example elective subjects
STEM	Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related careers	Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Agriculture
Social Sciences	Humanities, business, and social-science careers	History, Geography, Business Studies, Religious Education
Arts and Sports Science	Creative arts, performance, and sports-related careers	Music, Theatre and Film, Fine Art, Sports Science

What is a curriculum design, and who needs one?

A curriculum design is the official KICD document that lists everything a subject must cover at a given grade. Teachers need it because it is the legal source document behind every scheme of work, lesson plan, and exam a school produces.

A curriculum design breaks a subject into strands, sub-strands, specific learning outcomes, suggested learning experiences, and assessment methods.
Access Grade 10 curriculum design that is aligned to the version published by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD).
A curriculum design does not tell a teacher what to do on any single day; that is the job of a scheme of work and a lesson plan, both derived from it.

What is a scheme of work, and how are Grade 10 schemes organized by term?

A scheme of work is a term-long teaching plan that breaks a curriculum design into weekly, teachable lessons. It exists so a teacher and a subject’s continuity is protected even if that teacher is absent or replaced mid-term.

A scheme of work lists the week, the lesson, the strand and sub-strand, the specific learning outcome, learning resources, and the assessment method for each lesson.
KCBErevision.co.ke provides Grade 10 schemes of work for Term 1, Term 2, and Term 3, for every subject in all three pathways.
Schools are expected to submit schemes of work for approval before the term begins, which is why Term 1 schemes are the most searched document on this site in December and early January.

What is a lesson plan, and how is it different from a scheme of work?

A lesson plan is the single-lesson version of a scheme of work, detailing exactly how one 40-minute lesson will run. A scheme of work tells a teacher what to teach across a term; a lesson plan tells a teacher how to teach one specific lesson within it.

A lesson plan includes the lesson’s objectives, introduction, lesson development steps, learner activities, and a conclusion with an assessment check.
Lesson plans are drawn directly from the matching week in the scheme of work, so the two documents should never contradict each other.
KCBErevision.co.ke provides ready-made Grade 10 lesson plans for Term 1, Term 2, and Term 3, matched line-for-line to the schemes of work on this site.

What is a record of work, and why is it required?

A record of work is a teacher’s written log of what was actually taught, kept alongside the scheme of work it is meant to track. Its purpose is accountability: a scheme of work shows what was planned, while a record of work shows what was delivered.

A record of work lists the date, the lesson, the topic covered, and any deviation from the original scheme of work.
Quality assurance officers and school administrators use records of work to confirm that curriculum coverage is on schedule.
Teachers using KCBErevision.co.ke’s schemes of work can pair them directly with matching record-of-work templates, so entries take minutes rather than hours.

What Grade 10 notes are available, and how are they organized?

Grade 10 notes are subject-by-subject teaching and revision content, matched to each strand in the KICD curriculum design. Notes exist to give both teachers and learners a text they can study from between lessons, without having to reconstruct content from the curriculum design themselves.

Notes are split by term, so Term 1 notes cover only the strands scheduled in Term 1’s scheme of work.
Every subject across all three pathways has its own dedicated set of notes.
Notes are written to match the specific learning outcomes in the curriculum design, so a learner revising from these notes is revising exactly what will be assessed.

What are Grade 10 topical tests used for?

A topical test is a short assessment covering one strand or sub-strand, used to check understanding before moving to the next topic. Its purpose is diagnostic: it tells a teacher and a learner whether a specific topic needs to be retaught before the term exam.

Topical tests are shorter than full exams and usually take one lesson period to complete.
Because they are topic-specific, they let a learner isolate exactly which strand is weak, rather than guessing from one overall exam score.
KCBErevision.co.ke’s topical tests are sequenced to match the order topics appear in the Term 1, 2, and 3 schemes of work, so they can be sat as each topic is completed.

What are Grade 10 exams, and when are they sat?

A Grade 10 exam is a full, timed assessment covering everything scheduled in a term’s scheme of work, typically sat at the end of that term. Its purpose is summative: it measures how much of the whole term’s content a learner has retained, not just one topic.

Grade 10 exams are set per subject, per pathway, per term, so a STEM Mathematics exam is different from the Essential Mathematics exam sat by other pathways.
Grade 10 assessment under the CBE system combines end-of-term exams with continuous School-Based Assessment, so exams are one input into a learner’s overall record, not the only one.
KCBErevision.co.ke provides Term 1, Term 2, and Term 3 Grade 10 exams for every subject, built to match the exact scope of the matching term’s scheme of work.

What are Grade 10 holiday assignments, and when are they released?

A Grade 10 holiday assignment is a set of revision tasks issued at the end of a term, designed to keep learners engaged with the syllabus during the school break. It exists because a long break without structured revision is one of the most common causes of learners forgetting content between terms.

Holiday assignments are released three times a year: the April holiday assignment after Term 1, the August holiday assignment after Term 2, and the November–December holiday assignment after Term 3.
Each holiday assignment only covers content from the term that has just ended, so it never asks a learner to revise material they have not yet been taught.
The November–December assignment is the longest of the three, since it covers the full academic year before learners move up a grade in January.

What are Grade 10 revision papers, and how are they different from topical tests?

A Grade 10 revision paper is a practice paper that mixes questions from multiple topics, used closer to an exam date to test overall readiness rather than one topic at a time. A topical test checks one strand in isolation; a revision paper checks how well a learner can move between strands under the same conditions as a real exam.

Revision papers are best used after all topical tests for a term have already been completed.
Each revision paper on KCBErevision.co.ke is issued together with a full answer key, so a learner can self-mark immediately after attempting it.
Revision papers are the closest available substitute for past papers in a system that has no Grade 10 exam history yet, since 2026 is the first year this grade has existed in Kenya.

Which resource should you use, and when?

Different documents serve different users at different points in the term. This table summarises what each one is for and when it is used.

Resource	Who uses it	When it is used	What it answers
Curriculum design	Teachers, school administrators	Before the term, to plan	What must be taught this year?
Scheme of work	Teachers	Before and during the term	What is taught each week?
Lesson plan	Teachers	Daily, per lesson	How is one lesson delivered?
Record of work	Teachers, quality assurance officers	Ongoing, updated per lesson	What was actually taught?
Notes	Teachers, learners	During the term, for study	What does this topic cover?
Topical test	Teachers, learners	Right after a topic ends	Is this one topic understood?
Term exam	Teachers, learners	End of term	How much of the term was retained?
Holiday assignment	Learners	During April, August, and November–December breaks	Is the term’s content still retained after the break?
Revision paper	Learners	Before the next exam	Can the learner apply several topics together?

How do these resources fit together across a school year?

Every document on this page belongs to a single continuous cycle that starts with a curriculum design and ends with a revision paper. Three facts summarise how they connect.

Every scheme of work, lesson plan, note, and exam on this page is traceable back to a single KICD curriculum design, so nothing taught falls outside the official syllabus.
Term 1, Term 2, and Term 3 each repeat the same cycle: curriculum design, scheme of work, lesson plans, notes, topical tests, and a term exam, followed by a holiday assignment.
A learner who works through this full cycle in one term enters the next term’s scheme of work with no gaps, since holiday assignments only test what was already covered.

Where can you get these resources?

KCBErevision.co.ke provides every document described on this page for download, organized by pathway, subject, and term. Browse the subject index to find Grade 10 curriculum designs, schemes of work, lesson plans, records of work, notes, topical tests, term exams, holiday assignments, and revision papers in one place, updated as the 2026 academic year progresses.

Download Grade 10 Exams Term 1, Grade 10 Term 2 Exams and Grade 10 Exams Term 3

Grade 10 Term 1 Examinations with Marking Schemes

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KCBE Grade 10 Term 3 Exam Papers with Marking Schemes

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