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    "content": "usually called CATs. At the end of the year, it is possible for a student to be ranked and indexed based on their performances. Therefore, it is possible to know that index one is the best in the class in that order. The repeaters are usually allocated the least index numbers. It is possible to tell the students who scores grades A, B and C because most of these numbers are given in cluster forms. The possibility of there being a last person if one is not a repeater being the best is questionable. Many scholars have doubted the credibility of the Kenya National Examination Council. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is a dangerous trend if we do not curb cheating. I wish that the Senate Minority Leader listens to me because I will answer most of his concerns which he raised in his address. We should stamp out cheating in examinations because if we fail to do it, our students will continue to further their education outside Kenya and authenticity of their certificates will be questioned. That is the worst thing to happen in any country. It is important that the issue of examination cheating should be discussed by stakeholders like we are doing here. On public examinations, we are talking of the KNEC that offers Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination in Class Eight and the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination in Form Four. Doubts will be cast when students who are not indexed at the top appear to score lower than those at the top, a suspicion is raised that something is wrong in the examination. That is how those who mark the examination get to know. I have been a teacher for over 30 years and an examiner of high record. I used to be a senior examiner in Geography. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was a senior examiner in Geography Paper 2 and I was a very serious teacher. Let Members know that it is possible for an examiner to detect cheating from the beginning because we are trained to do that. We should not assume that cheating happened. It is a long process for anybody to note that students cheated in an examination. It is not something that you wake up, as you mark, and say that candidate “A”, “B” or “C” of a certain school cheated. It is a long process which starts from when a person enters the examination room and where they sit. A chart is drawn showing the sitting arrangement. If candidate index No.1 sat beside candidate index No.10 or 12 and it is discovered that their answers are similar, then you could suspect that cheating took place. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have students who smuggle examination materials into the examination room. You will find someone either carrying books or information on a piece of paper or written information on their hand or something. Those things happen. We have had cases where examination officers are barred from accessing examination centres. People collude with examination officers and even those from outside. There is a way they communicate with students in the examination room. The communication could be in form of a song where they sing and students will know the answer being communicated to them. Things are becoming serious in Kenya. As cheating continues, students who would not have passed will end up passing and the one who would have done very well will end up failing because failing, in this case, does not mean not doing very well. It means that somebody would have done better than the one who is supposed to do well. A school which does not perform well in The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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