Certificate of Secondary Education) testing for the Form Four Students – the testing that determines their futures!– “Some candidates were obtaining papers before they were due for writing examinations even after … ‘watertight’ measures against leaks” were announced.
– “At least 40 people had been arrested for peddling … fake papers … four people have appeared before a … court … with real papers … Unscrupulous police and education officers are believed to be behind the leaks”
– “Parents are wondering whether their children would be awarded the grades they merit should others continue gaining access to the questions prior to the” exams.
– “Some students have been sneaking into exam rooms with mobile phones even after (they were banned by administrators) … possibility that they are used to relay exam questions or answers to other candidates.”
– “Candidates at … lost Sh 184,000 to two colleagues who promised to supply them with all the papers before the exams started … after they collected the money the two students disappeared and did not show up even when the exam began.”
– “As the exam got under way … some candidates … wrote some papers in hospital and at police stations … student who had been arrested with fake examination papers was supervised” by an official. (Several other articles have appeared about girls who have given birth in the midst of their taking the exams.)
– “At least 40 people had been arrested for peddling … fake papers … four people have appeared before a … court … with real papers … Unscrupulous police and education officers are believed to be behind the leaks”
– “Parents are wondering whether their children would be awarded the grades they merit should others continue gaining access to the questions prior to the” exams.
– “Some students have been sneaking into exam rooms with mobile phones even after (they were banned by administrators) … possibility that they are used to relay exam questions or answers to other candidates.”
– “Candidates at … lost Sh 184,000 to two colleagues who promised to supply them with all the papers before the exams started … after they collected the money the two students disappeared and did not show up even when the exam began.”
– “As the exam got under way … some candidates … wrote some papers in hospital and at police stations … student who had been arrested with fake examination papers was supervised” by an official. (Several other articles have appeared about girls who have given birth in the midst of their taking the exams.)
There was a praise found in this article: “Students displaced by the post-election violence in the North Rift are sitting the exam following arrangements made by” officials. Another statement in this article also leads to prayer: “Some of their students say they may not do well due to the trauma, frustration and lack of proper counseling” after the post-election time.
Students still in IDP camps say “they could not concentrate on their school work because they often slept hungry and were exposed to chilly nights and diseases in the camps.” Please continue praying for Kenya’s kids who have just completed their four years of high school studies. The scores on the tests that began last week and will continue through November 17th will determine which kids will continue to universities and other training centres and which students will have no further educational opportunities unless their parents are very rich, which covers only a small minority of the students! Pray that they will do their best and be relieved of any extra stresses during the testing time. Bert Yates
***Pictures are of Form Four students at Ridgeways Baptist Church.
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