Knec refutes claims 60% of KCSE, KCPE questions are repeated.

The Kenya National Examination Council has dismissed claims by a researcher from the Zizi Afrique Foundation that 60 per cent of the questions tested in national exams are repeated.

KNEC CEO David Njeng'ere in an interview with the Star on Tuesday said the claims are false.

"This person making this claim did not produce any evidence. It is very difficult to respond to allegations that have no evidence. She needed to have produced evidence. Those claims are not true unless there is clear evidence. If there is a study, or research that has been done, let us see it," the KNEC boss said.

Njeng'ere was responding to a researcher with the Zizi Afrique Foundation who claimed that 60 per cent of all the questions examined during KCSE and KCPE are repeated each year.

Dr Purity Ngina, from the Zizi Afrique, said many always assess the cheating that might have taken place after the exam, but many never look into the questions that were tested.

"One of the things I have not seen is people analysing the questions. Because one of the things you will realise if you go through the KCPE or the KCSE exam papers is that 60 per cent of the questions are repeated," Ngina said.

And actually, most of the questions are even repeated word by word.

Ngina spoke on Tuesday during an interview with Citizen TV.

Ngina said for schools that can invest in people who can do their analysis of the questions from previous national exams, then their learners will be sure to get at least 60 per cent of the total marks per subject.

She said there are learners and teachers in big schools who have taken note of the trend and are investing in it.

Ngina said the findings were even shared in 2022 during a conference organised by all the assessment bodies in Africa.

"Knec were even represented at the conference and the findings were shared there that 60 per cent of our questions here in Kenya are repeated," she said.

The researcher added that some questions were not only repeated word for word but were also placed in the same position they had been placed in previous years.

"So if it's question 1 in History this year, you find the same question two years later is question 1 in...