By: Joseph Kamau Kiragu
Worth Noting:
- The government should also beef up security across the country, especially in areas prone to bandit attacks. This cannot be ignored, and it’s impossible to have a conducive environment when there is no security.
- This can disturb the examinee’s mind and hinder them from concentrating on their exam. Everybody in the exam centers, such as supervisors, invigilators and the candidates, require security; hence the government has a duty to ensure they are all safe during this crunch period.
- Parents also have a duty of not exerting unnecessary pressure on candidates. The pressure to achieve good grades mostly comes from parents, which is a peace threat to examinees.
National examinations season is here, and the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) is scheduled to kick off this week, followed by the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), which is expected to start next week. This is ample time for all exam registered candidates to harvest what they have been studying.
The examiner will not consider whether the candidates have been away from school due to fees arrears, strikes, or not. The examiner will expect the candidates to reap what they have been sowing; hence this is an important period for our candidates. For this to be fulfilled, our candidates need a peaceful environment that will ensure they have peace and tranquility to concentrate on their exams fully.
They don’t need an environment that will disturb their peace, calmness, and concentration at school or home. Therefore, for the examinees to emerge victoriously, the government and Kenyans at large have to ensure peaceful examinations take place.
Ironically, this has come when electioneering fever seems to have gained momentum since political campaigns have started, and it seems they can be in full swing before the official date. Political campaigns, especially near schools, can threaten the peace of those sitting in the exam. In most cases, the campaigners carelessly use loudspeakers that keep on repeating the name of the candidate, party and election promises without following the prescribed norms regarding noise regulations. For peace of mind and concentration, the government should deal with the politicians who violate the noise regulations and deal with them sternly.
The government should also beef up security across the country, especially in areas prone to bandit attacks. This cannot be ignored, and it’s impossible to have a conducive environment when there is no security.
This can disturb the examinee’s mind and hinder them from concentrating on their exam. Everybody in the exam centers, such as supervisors, invigilators and the candidates, require security; hence the government has a duty to ensure they are all safe during this crunch period.
Parents also have a duty of not exerting unnecessary pressure on candidates. The pressure to achieve good grades mostly comes from parents, which is a peace threat to examinees. This triggers them to be tempted to associate themselves with exam irregularities that completely disturb their minds.
All parents should desist from putting undue pressure on their students; they should allow them to do their best. The clarion call is that we should all come up and provide our examinees with a peaceful environment in the line of addressing themselves fully to the task at hand.
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