The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination is set to begin ton Monday with a total of 699,745 candidates expected to take part in the national test.
The candidates have been spread out across 10,287 exam centres in the country with 70,790 personnel from Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) and security agencies expected to monitor the examinations.
According to Daily Nation, this year's number of registered candidates has gone up by 35,160 compared to last year's.
The government is reported to have put measures in place in order to reduce cases of cheating during the examination.
Last year witnessed an escalation in the number of cheating cases with Knec cancelling results of 3,427 candidates, this was an increase from the cases reported in 2017 where results of 1,205 were cancelled.
Knec's acting Chief Executive Officer Mercy Karogo cautioned candidates against being involved in examination irregularities during the examination.
“We cannot allow our country to go back to where we were before the drastic measures were put in place by the government in 2016 to ensured sanity in our education system prevailed,” Dr Karogo stated as quoted by Daily Nation.
The candidates will do English functional skills testing in the morning and English comprehension, literary appreciation and grammar in the afternoon.
This is the first KCSE examination under Prof George Magoha as the Education Cabinet Secretary.
He also issued a stern warning against those caught in examination irregularities.
The examination will take 16 working days ending on November 27.