Kisii: KCSE candidate caught with pre-shared Maths exam

Police in Nyanchwa, Kisii County are investigating a suspected case of examination malpractice involving a 30-year-old private candidate sitting her KCSE exams at Nyanchwa Boys High School.

While candidates sat the Mathematics Paper 2 on Tuesday, police say, an unidentified man was spotted by a KNEC examination official placing a password-protected mobile phone by a classroom window adjacent to the examination centre.

After the candidates finished sitting the maths paper, the KNEC official interrogated the students to determine the owner of the said phone.

The private candidate reportedly ceded that the phone was hers.

After sharing the device's password, KNEC officials discovered that the maths test the students had just sat had been shared on four different WhatsApp groups on the said phone prior to the examination.

The mobile phone has since been confiscated by police who are also probing the private student.