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Exam cheating tricks used in 2018 KCSE

Education CS Amina Mohamed during the release of KCSE results in Nairobi on Friday, December 21 2018. [David Njaaga, Standard]

A secondary school in Nyanza region would have been ranked sixth nationally in this year’s KCSE examinations, but examiners noticed something unusual about its results.

Candidates had written similar answers for most questions in up to seven subjects, which, according to Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) examiners, pointed to cheating.

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