Well the results we have been waiting for are finally out.
The top candidates are now rejoicing while others are still not sure whether to go and check or just wait.
Bravo to the champ! Wish I had been you.
The exams unlike the recent past does not seem to have had as many cases of cheating and thus less candidates will have their results cancelled. But there are still some candidates who will still not get their results. We must agree that cheating is a vice and we can avoid it completely. I do think that the teachers who encourage cheating must have cheated themselves or are too shortsighted to see the truth. If one cheats it takes away the joy of winning.
We all can pass if we have the will to succeed. A school like Alliance has performed well consistently due to the spirit they have. The young man from a bush school who appeared in the top ten must have given many students a challenge that the school is not always to blame for poor results. That in mind students should work hard.
The agony in results comes only to those who have their exams cancelled due to cheating. It is an embarrassment having been through four years and having nothing to show of it and on top having a label of a ‘liar’ in national exams.
The frustration that arises comes from the poor accessibilty of exam results. To some who prefer to get the results get to them via SMS at times the system jams due to massive requests leading to stress on the subscribers. What else do you expect? You guessed it: the exam council website. Right now it is down and not accessible due to the massive traffic.
A solution to low bandwidth for the exam council website is to have other channels to share the bandwidth especially education institution websites. We cannot dwell on the same problems all the time we need to solve them and move on.
The announcement of results brought about the same old question, the place of the girl child. Poor performance of the girls was attributed to hospitalization, abuse and probably less rights. maybe true or false but what measures are taken? The point is if we uplift the girl child we should make sure that it is the girl that rises and not bringing down the boy child.
the other thing is the list of best schools. The list is gone but the ranking continues only this time not officially. The days when schools struggle to maintain a top cream of students to make headlines and leave out the rest are back, now what matters to schoools is simply to have their student mentioned in the top spots and they are done.
I do think this is unfair to the rest of the students as the competition among schools is dying out. When I was a student at Nyeri High School we always had to compete with Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girls and Kagumo High School now the competition is almost over. Well I should say it now: Bring back school ranking!
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Just when the debate on Ongeri and School funds and calls to resign were at the climax, Ongeri can breath but just for a short while trust me.
