This archive report was first published on 2 July 2020.
Published on July 2, 2020, Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu has weighed in on the debate about whether to allow students to sit for their final exams this year.
MP Ngunjiri Wambugu believes that both KCPE and KCSE exams are designed to test what students have learned over an extended period. He points out that students in Standard 8 or Form 4 have been in school for 7 years and nearly a term, or 3 years and nearly a term, respectively.
According to the MP, students have already covered more than 90 percent of what is required to sit for the exams, both at the primary and secondary levels. He notes that this means they have covered 22 out of a total of 24 terms (91%) and 10 out of a total of 12 terms (83%), respectively.
MP Ngunjiri Wambugu wonders why the Ministry of Education cannot cover the final exams from the 90 percent covered work. He feels that this would not significantly rearrange the lives of these young Kenyans.
”So why can’t the Ministry of Education set the KCPE & KCSE exams to cover the 90% the children had already covered – rather than rearrange the lives of millions of children because of a 10% portion of study they did not cover due to circumstances beyond everyone’s control?”
