KASNEB Rules and Regulations

Registration and examination bookings
All applications for registration and examination booking must be in the prescribed manner. The deadline for registration and examination booking will be specified for each sitting but may not be later than thirty days to the date of the next examinations.

Exemptions
Exemptions may, on application, be granted to registered students who are holders of certain degrees and diplomas recognised by kasneb. Exemptions will be granted on a paper by paper basis. Details on available exemptions can be accessed on the kasneb website www.kasneb.or.ke

Retention of Credits
Credits for papers passed by candidates will be retained without limit.

Progression Rule
A candidate will not be allowed to enter a higher level of the examination before completing the lower level.

Registration Renewal

• A registered student must renew the studentship registration annually on the first day of July provided that newly registered students will be required to renew their registration on the first day of July following the examination sitting to which they are first eligible to enter.
• A student who without good cause fails to renew the registration within three months of the renewal date will be deemed to have allowed the registration to lapse and may thus forfeit the right to write the examination until the renewal position is regularised. The registration number of a student who fails to renew the registration for three consecutive years will be deactivated, that is, removed from the register of students and will thus not be able to book for examinations until the registration number is reactivated.
• A student whose registration number is deactivated for failure to renew the registration may apply for reactivation provided that if the application is accepted, the student shall:
• (a) Pay the registration reactivation fee.
• (b) Pay three years of registration renewal fees.

Certificate Collection
Upon a notification that certificates are ready for collection, a student can pick their certificate at our
office at kasneb Towers or make a request via certificates@kasneb.or.ke for the certificate to be mailed
to them via postal address. Students are given a four-month period to collect their certificates thereafter,
a storage fee of Kshs. 100 is charged per month.

Examination Account Cancellation
A candidate wishing to register for a new course is required to pay the accrued renewal fee for the current
course before their account is deactivated then proceed to register for the new course by paying the
requisite registration fee.

Rules Governing the Conduct of Students in the Examination Room
Kasneb will conduct examinations on both computer-based and paper-based platforms. The following rules mainly relate to paper-based examinations. Kasneb will be issuing additional rules specific to computer-based examinations in due course.

• Candidates should present themselves for the examination at least 30 minutes before the scheduled time for the commencement of the examination they are taking.
• A candidate who arrives half an hour or later after the commencement of the examination will not be allowed to take the examination nor will a candidate be permitted to leave the examination room until after the end of the first half hour since the commencement of the examination.
• Each candidate is assigned a registration number upon registration as a student of kasneb. The candidate must sit at the place indicated by that number in the examination room. The registration number must be entered in the space provided at the top right-hand corner of each answer sheet.
• The name of the candidate must not appear anywhere on the answer sheet.
• Each answer sheet has a serial number indicated on the top, left hand side of the answer sheet. Each candidate must indicate the serial number of the answer sheet(s) used for each examination paper in the signature register.
• Examination stationery will be provided in the examination room, but candidates must bring their own blue or black ink pens, pencils, and rulers.
• Mobile phones are strictly not allowed in the examinations room.
• No stationery whatsoever may be removed from the examination room.
• Candidates must not carry the examination question papers from the examination room.
• Candidates are allowed to use calculators provided that such calculators are noiseless, cordless and non-programmable.
• Candidates will be required to positively identify themselves to the chief invigilator by producing their student identification cards and the national identity cards. Non-Kenyan candidates will be required to produce other relevant identification documents such as passports.
• Strict silence must be observed during the entire duration of the examination.
• Candidates must not possess any notes, printed paper or books in the examination room, but must leave any such material with the chief invigilator. Candidates using clipboards must ensure that such clipboards have no writing on them whatsoever.
• Smoking is not allowed in the examination room.
• Candidates must not collude in the examination room by exchanging notes or keeping the answer booklet in such a way that another candidate can read or copy from the booklet.
• Impersonation in the examination room is not only a serious offence but also a criminal offence.
• During the course of the examination, no candidate may leave the examination room without permission from the chief invigilator. Any candidate who does so will not be allowed to return to the examination room.
• Candidates who finish the paper before the chief invigilator announces the end of the examination and wish to leave the examination room while the examination is in progress must inform the invigilator and hand in their scripts to the invigilator before leaving the examination room. However, no candidate will be allowed to leave the examinations room during the last fifteen (15) minutes of the examination.
• Candidates must not leave the examination room with any answer booklet or answer sheets.
• Candidates must not leave the examination room before their answer booklets are collected by the invigilators.
• Candidates must not write notes on the examination timetable (Authority to sit the Examination).
• Candidates with confirmed disabilities may apply to kasneb to be allowed extra time during examinations. Such application should be made at least two months prior to the examination.
• Candidates must produce the timetables (Authority to sit the Examination) in order to be allowed to take the examination. Candidates may download their timetables (Authority to sit the Examination) from the kasneb website or through the e-kasneb. The downloaded timetables may be used as authority to sit the examination.

Action for Breach of Examination Rules and Regulations

Disciplinary action will be taken against candidates who breach the examination rules and regulations of kasneb. A breach of the examination rules and regulations of kasneb shall include but is not limited to the following:
(a) Deficiency in identification.
(b) Impersonation.
(c) Collusion.
(d) Possession of a mobile phone in the examination room.
(e) Possession of notes in the examination room.
(f) Taking away answer booklets.
(g) Writing of names on the scripts.
(h) Possession of mobile phones in the examination room.
(i) Carrying the examination question papers from the examination room.

The action for breach of the examination rules and regulations of kasneb shall include but not limited to the following:
(a) De-registration as a student of kasneb.
(b) Cancellation of registration number.
(c) Nullification of candidate’s results.
(d) Prohibition from taking examinations of kasneb.
(e) Written reprimand and warning.