Why professors would struggle to join varsity if told to redo KCSE exams

President William Ruto during the start of KCPE and KEPSEA exams at Kikuyu Township Primary School, Kiambu County on October 30, 2023. [PCS, Standard]

You are what you eat, so the old adage goes. And you are what you think, obviously.

This is quite true for me. In the nearly 10 years that I have been directing examinations for a national university, thereby interacting daily with various aspects of student matriculation and assessment, I sometimes have dreamed falling asleep in the exam room only to wake up sweat-drenched as the invigilator demands for the answer booklet.