KNEC kcse timetable 2019
THE KENYA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
THE 2019 KCSE EXAMINATION TIMETABLE - KCSE Timetable 2019
KCSE INSTRUCTIONS & GUIDELINES FOR THE YEAR 2019
KCSE
Candidates are expected to start sitting for their final exams on -
MONDAY 04/11/2019 & Complete it on - WEDNESDAY 27/11/2019
INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDELINES TO TEACHERS AND CANDIDATES
TEACHERS
are advised to ensure that the candidates read these instructions and
guidelines carefully and adhere to them. The candidates should be made
aware of the penalties for examination irregularities or misconduct.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
- Avail
yourself for searching outside the examination room and be seated at
your desk/table 15 minutes before the time fixed for theexamination in
the various papers. The first session will start at 8.00 a.m. followed
by the second session as indicated on the timetable.
- A
candidate who arrives late will be required to give a satisfactory
reason to the Supervisor. Only in exceptional circumstances will a
paperbe given to any candidate who is more than half an hour late.
Absolute punctuality is essential for all papers.
- Check the question paper you have been given to confirm that it is the paper you registered for.
- If
an examination paper for which you are not registered is handed to you,
or if the questions indicate that a map or other material should
alsohave been provided, inform the Supervisor at once.
- Attend
carefully to any general instructions that may be given on the first
page of a paper, e.g. instructions limiting the number of questionsthat
should be answered.
- Check to ensure that each page of your question paper is printed.
- Write your name, index number, sign and write the date of the examination on the answer booklet.
- 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
usethe same system of numbering as appears in the question paper.
Leave a blank line after the answer to each question.
- Write
your responses in black or blue ink. You may use fountain pen or ball
point pen. Pencils should only be used for diagrams.
Bringmathematical and drawing instruments for subjects for which they
will be needed.
- Read each question carefully. A lot of time
may be wasted in writing down information that is not asked for and no
marks will be given for it.
- Do not spend too much time on one or two questions. Leave yourself adequate time to answer other questions.
- As
soon as notice is given to stop, make sure your name, index number,
signature and the date of the examination are written on the
answerbooklet and then hand it over to the supervisor/ invigilator.
- KNEC should be notified of withdrawal from the examination not later than 31st May 2019.
CAUTION TO THE CANDIDATES
- You
are not allowed to leave the examination room before the end of the
period allocated to the paper except with special permission from the
Supervisor. NO CANDIDATE SO PERMITTED TO LEAVE MAY TAKE A QUESTION
PAPER OR ANSWER BOOKLET 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 notgive or
obtain unfair assistance, or attempt to do so, whether by copying or in
any other way, and 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 in your proximity while
in the examination room, any book, notes, papers or any othermaterials
whatsoever except the correct question papers 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 calculator as
permitted by the Regulations, it should be the specified non
programmable calculator. If in doubt, check with the Supervisor.
- You must return immediately to the Supervisor any question paper that has smudges, errors or is badly printed.
- You
must not take any used or unused paper out of the examination room.
Any rough work must be done on the official answer booklet and,if not
to be submitted with the answers, must be left on the desk to be
collected by the Supervisor and destroyed.
- Any misconduct or causing of disturbance in or near the examination room will be treated as an examination irregularity.
- For
practical papers to be taken in shifts, all candidates taking the
examination must avail themselves for confinement. Any candidate who
does not present him/herself for confinement will have committed an
examination irregularity.
- Cell phones or any other electronic
communication device are prohibited in examination centres. Any
candidate found in possession of a cell phone or any other electronic
communication device will have his or her results cancelled.
PENALTY FOR EXAMINATION IRREGULARITIES
- The
KNEC Act No. 29 of 2012 Offences and Penalties stated in Sections 27 to
40 for cases of examination irregularities will apply. Some of the
highlights in these Sections state that:
- 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 result “Y” overall.
- If there is
evidence of wide-spread irregularities in any examination centre, the
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
acandidate or not, will be in violation of Section 27 of the Act and
the penalty will be imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or
a fine not exceeding two million shillings or both;
- willfully
and maliciously damages examination material will be in violation of
Section 30 of the Act and the penalty will be imprisonment for a term
not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding five million shillings
or both;
- is not registered to take a KNEC examination but, with
intent to impersonate, presents or attempts to present himself to take
the part of an enrolled candidate will be in violation of Section 31 of
the Act, and shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding two years or a fine not exceeding two million
shillings or both and shall be prohibited from taking an examination
conducted by or on behalf of the Council for a period of three years.
Please ensure that you do not commit any examination irregularity to avoid having your kcse exam results cancelled.
