‘Militant’ handling of exams worries parents and learners

A student prays before a KSCE examination. Some schools are likely to claim they were publicly victimised long before examinations kicked off. [File, Standard]

One of the rules the 14-year-olds sitting the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education is a warning against damaging the examination materials.

“Any person who willfully or maliciously damages examination material will be in violation of Section 30 of the KNEC Act and the penalty will be imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine not exceeding Sh5 million or both.”