To be true folks,did you cheat in exams in high school?
Did you cheat in the university to pass?
Genuinely!
MANY are avoiding this quiz like a plague..Zack, as for me, I remember cheating. It was history Paper 1. KCSE. After all the other days of exams, I had developed some friendship with the invigilator. I sat three desks from him. He must have admired our honesty. Index 3 was not expected to copy! He had warned us to be honest and we'll pass. The question on paper was rather blunt. Too stupid to fail. 'Name one Asian Political Activist in the Kenyan Independence Period'. When he was collecting the papers, I had that question unanswered. I dared ask him! That would not amount to dishonesty, I guessed. He mumbled something like Pipiipopoo. I was not sure of what he said. How could I have asked him to pardon himself? I can't remember what I wrote. I knew nothing about that. I had failed the one mark thing. It is when I had boarded a bus from Machakos Station-after three weeks- heading to Dandora with my father, proud that I was a high school leaver that I saw a bus written the three full names PIO GAMA PINTO. The son of soil freezed. As Dad took a moment later to advice me against the lure of all naked women in town, this was hitting me pretty hard...Couldn't I have just ignored asking the Invigilator about it?
This was some weeks ago.
I have a friend who recently left her phone in the car. A student on internship. She could not go home and pick It the following day. She waited at the office till the car was back. It was getting dark and all she cared for was the handset, not the long journey she would make to town and letter in one of the Nairobi suburbs. The reason? She was having a Continuous Assessment Test at the school. How does the phone relate to this? Simple, electronic mwakenya. A present disease in Kenyan schools.
"Kenya is producing a useless workforce', my boss refrains every time he talks of students in colleges. He can recall a few critical lessons in his undergraduate studies that a student who took the unit in the previous semester may not recall. And the victims would not fail to prove him right by saying that exams are the reason for their behaviour. They pay school fees because of the exam. They wake up early for that: attend lectures, attend study groups and avail themselves for the final paper. They have no responsibility of the lessons learnt. They would craft a way out for themselves in life anyway.
But we know that dishonesty fails a person. It is however not in the nature of a person to reason about consequences before indulging. Conveniences overtake the good and without knowing one would have accumulated self a trail of lies in rising up the ladder of economic life. Not the sophistication stairs.Then discontention and evil multiply.
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