The government is committed to ensuring that all the innovations introduced on the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations' compliance this year are followed to the latter," KNEC CEO David Njeng'ere has said.
Njeng'ere said they have so far had 99.99 per cent compliance with the exam's set rules and regulations across the country.
"Today, we have Mathematics Paper 2 and Kiswahili Paper 3 in the afternoon. As we have witnessed, one of the major reforms that we introduced last year to take care of the challenge of early exposure is that schools collect only the morning paper, administer, bring back the candidates' answer scripts, and then take the afternoon paper," Njeng'ere said.
Njeng'ere spoke when he presided over the Mathematics PP2 administration in Machakos County on Monday.
He said the strategy had helped to completely cure the challenge of early exposure to question papers.
The Knec CEO said mobile phones shouldn't be in examination centres.
"We have said that as soon as the question papers enter any examination centre, all phones are supposed to be surrendered to the supervisor, and they should be secured in a lockable space. That's what we are enforcing. We have had 99.99 per cent compliance, but we have a few cases where we still have a few people who aren't following. Those are the cases that are making us come out here to ensure that those rules are followed," Njeng'ere said.
Njeng'ere said the ongoing rains hadn't interfered with the examination delivery in any part of the country.
"So far, we haven't heard any case of rains interfering with the exams because, in extreme areas of the country, we have choppers delivering the KCSE papers," Njeng'ere said.
