The ongoing Form Four national examination was temporarily delayed across the country after it emerged that one of the papers had anomalies. Students who were sitting the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Kiswahili Paper Two had to seek assistance from their invigilators for clarification.
It emerged the paper had three questions which had anomalies, which were blamed on the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC). According to a senior education officer who declined to be named, officials from KNEC had to be called after students pointed out the ‘screaming’ anomalies.
“In one of the questions, the students were to refer to a statement that was supposed to be underlined but on checking, there was nothing of the sort,” said the source. In another question, according to the official, there were glaring spelling mistakes that confused the students forcing them to seek the assistance of invigilators.