MATHS PAPER

Centre managers, who are also school head teachers, have also been warned against allowing any examination official to walk into examination rooms with mobile phones.

On Monday, the candidates will start with the mathematics paper while chemistry will be done in the afternoon. According to Knec, some 664,585 candidates will write their examination in 10,077 centres across the country with 83,711 field officers being involved.

During the examination, there will be 10,078 centre managers, supervisors will be 10,460, invigilators (37,978) security personnel (20,156) while drivers will be 5,039 and their total dues will be Sh705 million. Ms Mohamed has ordered that examination containers — currently 459 — be opened daily at 6 am.

MOBILE PHONES

The council will also be keen to deal with candidates who want to use mobile phones to cheat. The over 600,000 candidates sitting this year’s KCSE examination will be battling for the limited elite courses in top universities in the country.

The candidates will be eyeing close to 100,000 slots in 70 public and private universities in the country while those who will not make the cut are likely to join technical colleges.

Candidates will be keen to post good results at the end of next month in order to be assured of slots at the University of Nairobi, Moi, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Kenyatta University which are among the most sought after institutions by students. Statistics from the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) indicate that those institutions admit the highest number of students.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Most of them offer elite courses preferred by most students among them engineering, pharmacy, law, computer science and architecture. Out of some 606,394 candidates who sat last year’s KCSE examination, only 69,151 scored a mean grade of C+ and above, the minimum required to join university.

Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion wants the examinations body to ensure that this time round “there is fair grading” in the national examination. In a statement, Mr Sossion said fair grading will ensure candidates achieve their lifetime ambitions and long cherished dreams of proceeding to higher learning institutions.

“The 140,000 vacancies in public universities this time round ought to be filled by local students,” said Mr Sossion. He also asked Knec to put in place appropriate measures to ensure there is no room for leakages and cheating.

LEAKAGES

A report by the Education ministry states that examiners last year reported that some of the questions that tested candidates’ ability to discuss or explain certain concepts that they had learnt were poorly answered, with many candidates either listing or providing sketchy answers. The ministry is worried by candidates’ over-reliance on sketchy revision books and past papers during their revision which don’t contain detailed explanations.

MATHS PAPER

Centre managers, who are also school head teachers, have also been warned against allowing any examination official to walk into examination rooms with mobile phones.

On Monday, the candidates will start with the mathematics paper while chemistry will be done in the afternoon. According to Knec, some 664,585 candidates will write their examination in 10,077 centres across the country with 83,711 field officers being involved.

During the examination, there will be 10,078 centre managers, supervisors will be 10,460, invigilators (37,978) security personnel (20,156) while drivers will be 5,039 and their total dues will be Sh705 million. Ms Mohamed has ordered that examination containers — currently 459 — be opened daily at 6 am.

MOBILE PHONES

The council will also be keen to deal with candidates who want to use mobile phones to cheat. The over 600,000 candidates sitting this year’s KCSE examination will be battling for the limited elite courses in top universities in the country.

The candidates will be eyeing close to 100,000 slots in 70 public and private universities in the country while those who will not make the cut are likely to join technical colleges.

Candidates will be keen to post good results at the end of next month in order to be assured of slots at the University of Nairobi, Moi, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and Kenyatta University which are among the most sought after institutions by students. Statistics from the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) indicate that those institutions admit the highest number of students.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Most of them offer elite courses preferred by most students among them engineering, pharmacy, law, computer science and architecture. Out of some 606,394 candidates who sat last year’s KCSE examination, only 69,151 scored a mean grade of C+ and above, the minimum required to join university.

Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion wants the examinations body to ensure that this time round “there is fair grading” in the national examination. In a statement, Mr Sossion said fair grading will ensure candidates achieve their lifetime ambitions and long cherished dreams of proceeding to higher learning institutions.

“The 140,000 vacancies in public universities this time round ought to be filled by local students,” said Mr Sossion. He also asked Knec to put in place appropriate measures to ensure there is no room for leakages and cheating.

LEAKAGES

A report by the Education ministry states that examiners last year reported that some of the questions that tested candidates’ ability to discuss or explain certain concepts that they had learnt were poorly answered, with many candidates either listing or providing sketchy answers. The ministry is worried by candidates’ over-reliance on sketchy revision books and past papers during their revision which don’t contain detailed explanations.