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KCPE doesn't test intellectuality, scrap it

The idea of scraping the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams is a great national academic concern in education reforms.

The exam has had a negative impact against many young talents who actually drop out in Class Eight, not because they are not clever, but because something psychological or physical might have happened to them during or shortly before the exam time.

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