The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has officially released the awaited for June/ July Technical Examinations Timetable of Practicals and project papers. The following are the general instructions that will be guiding the whole examination:
General Instructions: June/July 2022
- The actual time allowed for each paper is indicated against the name of the paper and under no circumstances should extra time is to be allowed. In case of any discrepancy, the tike stated on the question paper should be considered as correct.
- The visually impaired candidates will not be offered any extra time other than what is stated in their respective papers. Any time allocated to reading through questions is included in the total time shown, except when special paper instructions indicate otherwise.
- All first session papers will start at 8.00 a.m. The start time for the second session papers will be as shown on the provided timetable.
- All Supervisors must ensure that candidates have correctly written their names, and index numbers and have countersigned their answer scripts before they collect the scripts from the candidates.
Instructions To Supervisors, Teachers And Candidates: June/July 2022
- Supervisors are asked to take all the necessary steps and measures to ensure that the following instructions are brought to the notice of the Teachers and Candidates under examination.
- Teachers are advised to ensure that their students are carefully drilled on how to carry out the instructions given below and that candidates are aware of the penalties for irregularities or misconduct. Candidates are required to follow these instructions carefully without failure
General Instructions To June/July 2022 Candidates
- Be at your seat in the Examination Room five minutes before the time fixed for the examination in the various papers. The first morning sessions will normally start at 8.00 a.m. and the 2nd-morning sessions will start at 11.30 a.m.
- A candidate who arrives late will be required to give a satisfactory reason to the supervisor. Except in exceptional circumstances, a paper will not be given to any candidate who is more than half an hour late. Absolute punctuality is essential for certain papers, e.g. Shorthand.
- If an examination paper for which you are not registered for is handed to you, or if the questions indicate that a map or other material should also have been given out, speak to the supervisor at once.
- Attend carefully to any general directions that may be given at the head of a paper, e.g. directions limiting the number of questions that should be answered.
- Write your name, your index number as well as the name of the paper on the first page of each answer book or sheet of each set of papers you use. Thereafter, your index number must be written in clear figures in the space provided on every sheet or page of the answer book.
- Write on both sides of the paper, but do not use the margins. Begin the answer to each separate part of a question on a fresh line.
- Write the number of the question clearly in the left-hand margin at the beginning of each answer. Do not copy the question. Be careful to use the same system of numbering as appears in the question paper. Leave a blank line after the answer to each question.
- Write your answers in black or blue ink. You may use a fountain pen or ballpoint pen. Pencils should only be used for diagrams. Remember that handwriting and spelling will be taken into account. Bring mathematical and drawing instruments for subjects for which they will be needed.
- Read the questions carefully. A lot of time may be wasted in writing down information that is not asked for and no marks are given for it.
- As soon as notice is given to stop, arrange your answer book and sheets in the correct order (this is normally the order in which you answered the questions). Make sure that they all have your index number written upon them. Fasten them together at the left-hand corner and hand them unfolded to the supervisor.
- Withdrawal from the examination should have been notified to the Council before any papers of the examination are taken.
Caution To The June/July 2022 Candidates
- You are not allowed to leave the examination room before the end of the period allocated to the paper except with the special permission of the supervisor. No candidate so permitted to leave may take a question paper out of the examination room.
- Do not leave a sheet of paper you have written on or your answers in such a position that another candidate can read them. You should not give or obtain unfair assistance or attempt to do so. Whether by copying or in any other way, your work should not show proof of such unfair assistance. No communication whatsoever in whatever manner between candidates or with outsiders is allowed during the examination.
- You are not allowed to have in your possession or your proximity while in the examination room, any book, notes, papers or any other materials whatsoever, except the correct question paper and any materials expressly authorized by the Kenya National Examinations Council.
- You may only use mathematical tables printed by the Kenya National Examinations Council, and these should not contain any additional notes except the printed information. If you are using a slide ruler as permitted by the Regulations it should not contain formulae or other data that may give you an undue advantage over other candidates. If in doubt, check with the supervisor.
- You must return immediately to the Supervisor any incorrect question paper given to you.
- You must not take any used or unused writing paper out of the examination room. Any rough work must be done on the official answer paper and; if not to be submitted with the answers, must be left on the desks to be collected by the supervisor and destroyed.
- Disorderly conduct or the causing of disturbance in or near the examination will be treated as a serious examination irregularity.
- Mobile phones are prohibited in the examination rooms and the examination centre. Any candidate caught in possession of a mobile phone will have his/her results cancelled.
Penalties For Irregularities: June/July 2022
The KNEC Act of 2012 rules and regulations, offences and penalties stated in sections 27 – 40 or cases of examination irregularities will apply. The following are just a few highlights:
A candidate who commits an examination irregularity in any paper will have the results for the whole subject cancelled. Such a candidate will not be entitled to a result and will be awarded a result “Y” overall.
If there is evidence of widespread irregularities in any centre, the whole examination results for the whole centre will be cancelled. Any person who:
- Gains access to examination material and knowingly reveals the contents, whether orally or in writing, to an unauthorized party, whether a candidate or not will violate section 27 and the penalty will be imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or a fine not exceeding two million shillings or both;
- Wilfully and maliciously damages examination material will violate section 30 and the penalty will be imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine not exceeding five million shillings or both;
- Is not registered to take a particular Council’s examination but, with intent to impersonate, presents or attempts to present himself to take the part of an enrolled candidate, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding two million shillings or both and may be prohibited from taking an examination conducted by or on behalf of the Council for three years.