Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang has warned KCSE supervisors and invigilators against entering examination rooms with phones.
Speaking in Kibra on Tuesday, the PS said that it had come to his attention that some invigilators use their phones to share the papers online.
"It has been noted that some exam officials screenshot exam scripts and shared them on social media," Kipsang said.
The PS was speaking before handing over the 2023 KCSE exams to the Kibra deputy county commissioner's office.
The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education main examinations officially began on Monday morning with some 903,260 candidates sitting this year’s exam.
Officials from the Ministry of Education arrived at various exam collection centres early in the morning to oversee the distribution of exam materials.
On Monday, Kenya National Examination Council chief executive officer David Njengere said the government had introduced a new rule to discourage early exposure of the second paper during the KCSE examinations.
He said there would be a double collection of examination papers from the container to the examination centres.
“There is a new rule that the government is implementing which is that the first session of KCSE will be conducted from 8:00 am, then the centre managers will return those papers to the container and they will collect the second session paper at 12:30 pm and they will administer that paper at 2:00 pm," Njengere added.
On Tuesday, candidates will sit for Maths Paper 1 and English Paper 2.
On November 8, candidates will sit for Chemistry Paper 2 and English Paper 3.
On Thursday, November 9 the learners will be tested in Kiswahili Lugha Paper 2 and Kiswahili Insha Paper 1.
While for the entire Friday, the candidates will do their Chemistry practicals.
