A past examination exercise. [PHOTO/nation.co.ke]

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The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams begin today Monday morning.

This year, a total of 615,773 candidates registered for the national exam.

​The examinations come amid tough regulations and tight security targetting to curb cheating.

Already, the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) has warned of tough penalties to those found cheating.

Among the penalties is a 10-year jail term or a Sh2 million fine or both to those who will be caught revealing the exam content to unauthorised persons, candidate or not.

Knec also warned that they would cancel the exam results for individual candidates or entire examination centres should there be found cases of irregularities.

Today, students will begin with Mathematics at 8am before sitting the Chemistry paper at 11am in all the 9,350 centres across the country.