How did 1,205 KCSE test candidates cheat?

Details of how 1,205 candidates of Form Four cheated in the national exams of the year. last year were published

. The report came as Knec's president, George Magoha, told candidates in the Kenya Secondary School Test of 2018 that there would be no room for cheating.

In a television interview, Professor Magoha some groups started collecting money from school heads, candidates and parents, promising to sell them exams.

"Some school heads collect money from children, promising to have them examined. We have ensured that there is no leakage, "he said.

In his report, Knec says that he constituted a team of 36 specialists to examine scenarios of Responses in Affected Subjects.

Investigators were divided into groups

This was a subject chief examiner, four examiners with 10 years of randomly selected experience, a Knec agent and a specialist from the Kenya Curriculum Development Institute.

The study also shows that the candidates identical answers to questions, which means that there was collusion.

In a northeastern school, all 70 students had a similar but erroneous answer in English 2.

In another question, 69 candidates answered incorrectly while another canceled the correct answer and asked them Replaced by the wrong answer.

In the article of Physical 1, the nine candidates presented similar incomplete curves for the graph of energy potentials. In another school in eastern Kenya, 96 of the 97 candidates for the chemistry test saw their results revoked.

The candidates presented similar answers to most questions

. , a candidate who had initially given the correct answer canceled it and wrote the wrong one.

In a school in the Rift Valley, the 162 candidates cheated in the English newspaper 2 because they gave similar answers to a question

"It is highly unlikely that candidates would have similar and even identical answers questions of a higher order that require interpretation and inference ", states the report

. many candidates canceled or deleted their own answers and replaced them with the ones that were common. Some even canceled correct answers. "

In the same school, 20 candidates had their physics results canceled.1

In one question, 18 candidates presented a similar incorrect answer:" The drop is spherical in shape. "19659004] However, the answer did not require the characteristics of the drops.

In a Rift Valley school, the 320 candidates cheated in English paper 2. In one question, most used similar words, drawing suspicion markers

"It is worth noting that almost all candidates used the word" provocative / provocative ", which is not commonly used at the level," reads the report.

In the same center, 319 of the 320 students cheated in Biology 2, with seven identical answers word for word.

Fifteen candidates presented an identical but false answer

In another Rift Valley school, candidates cheated in history and government, with 22 answers ct. Six others gave incorrect answers using the same word

In an examination center in western Kenya, 189 of 190 candidates cheated in the biology journal, presenting incorrect answers similar to a question

. "The answers were far-fetched, a clear indication that candidates accessed answers from a common source," the report says.

In a school in Nyanza, 191 students out of 205 cheated in the English newspaper 2.

In one question, the candidates had a similar answer: "Azdak has just surrendered to the police for allowing the big -duc of escaping. "

"Note that the word" police "is not used anywhere.The schools whose results were canceled include Chalbi Boys, Barazani Girls, Cecilia Girls Chepareria, Ortum, Koelel, Tenges, Chebuyusi Boys, Mokubo and Towfiq

.] Counsel stated that centers were involved in various forms of examination irregularities