KNEC issues New Exam Pick up Strategies To Curb Cheating
For this year’s national exams, the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has suggested enhanced security measures to prevent cheating.
According to Teachers Updates, exam administrators would no longer gather all of the day’s exam papers in the morning.
The centre administrators, who are also the heads of the schools, will only pick up the morning papers.
Before choosing the afternoon papers, the exam officials will put the finished morning papers back in the container.
According to insiders with the Ministry of Education, the goal of the policy is to stop students from accessing afternoon papers too early.
According to a ministry official, “They will no longer have as much time with afternoon examination questions because they will be stored in a container and retrieved only minutes before the exam.”
Additionally, the current procedure requiring exam administrators to retrieve question papers from bins located in respective subcounties will be examined.
Exam questions must be picked up by administrators of schools and testing facilities from the nearest container.
This is because it has been discovered that some schools near specific storage facilities have been unable to retrieve exams from those locations because they do not fall inside the sub-county.
To move storage facilities for exams to schools, KNEC will purchase more containers.
Insiders claim that under the new system, this will shorten the time needed to pick up and deliver exam papers.
These are some of the new precautions being put in place three months before national exams.
According to information provided by Knec upon the completion of registration, about 1,4 million candidates will take the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam.
The Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) will be taken by an additional 1.2 million sixth-graders.
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This year, the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam will be taken by about 903,260 students.
Candidates for the KCPE and KPSEA will practise on Friday, October 27, 2023, per the Knec 2023 test schedule.
On Monday, October 30, the concurrent three-day exams are slated to start.
They will end on November 1 to make room for the KCSE exam, which will take place from November 2 through November 24.
Government organisations struggle with sleepless nights due to exam fraud as they play a game of finger-pointing.
Police are the weakest link in the administration of exams, according to officials from the education ministry.
The Director of Criminal Investigation has also been charged with performing insufficient investigations that do not support charges.
The investigators are charged with failing to present enough evidence for prosecution by the ODPP and Judiciary.
The Judiciary is also accused by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) of providing protection to cybercriminals who create and run websites that encourage cheating.
Furthermore, CA has come under fire for taking too long to shut down websites that offer fake exam materials.
Despite the finger-pointing, preparations are well under way three months before the tests.
Exam officials have visited the printer to confirm the preparation methods.
KNEC issues New Exam Pick up Strategies To Curb Cheating
