The Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) has issued new rules and regulations that must be followed to dot when administering the national examinations scheduled next month.
The new rules and regulations by KNEC also spell out strict penalties on both candidates and examination administrators who would be found culpable of any examination malpractices.
The Council spelt out the new rules and regulations ahead of the national examinations while in a meeting with all chief examiners of KPSEA, KCSE and KCPE.
The Knec Chief Executive Officer Dr David Njengere noted that this academic year has been unique academic year due to the revised academic calendar and number of examinations to be administered.
The KNEC chief executive officer urged all the education stakeholders to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in the manning and marking of the national examinations.
Some of the guidelines spelt out by KNEC ahead of the five national examinations this year include:
1. Candidates should not be allowed any extra time while sitting KPSEA, KCPE and KCSE tests.
2. No unnecessary movements by candidates when the examinations are underway unless with special permission from supervisors.
3. Any form of communication between candidates and strangers within or outside the school compound is not permitted.
4. According to Knec any form of misbehaviour by candidates will be treated as an attempt to cheat in the examinations.
5. Within the examination rooms, candidates are cautioned from exposing their question answers to their counterparts.
6. Use of short notes during examination is prohibited and punishable.
7. Students are cautioned against gaining access to examination material or revealing the contents an unauthorised party. If any student commits this offense, a penalty or a fine not exceeding Sh 2 million or imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or both will be applied.
8. Damage of examination material will attract imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding Sh5 million or both.
9. KNEC has warned against impersonation. Those planning to sit the examinations on behalf of candidates will face the full forsee of the law.
If incase the impostor is a student, he or she will be prohibited from taking aa examination conducted by or on behalf of Knec fora period of three years.
10. Assessment irregularities committed by a candidate I any paper will result to cancelation of the result of the whole subject.
11. If the anomalies spread and is detected in any assessment centre, the results for the entire centre will be cancelled.
12. It is illegal to possess and use mobile phones in the examination centres.
13. Candidates, supervisors, invigilators or headteachers shall not enter an examination room with phones or other electronic devices.
14. Schools with less than thirty (30) candidates and more than five (5) kilometres away from the nearest examination centre will seek special approval from Knec through the Sub County Director of Education to have examinations in their premises.
15. There shall be a ratio of one invigilator for every 20 students, and one supervisor for every 200 candidates.
