Exam leakage: The craziness of a now level playing field

Exams have always leaked. The only difference this time is that village schools had an opportunity to enjoy what ‘big’ schools have always enjoyed in the past.

For the first time, secondary school exam leakage has caught the attention of mainstream media to the extent of being one of the most discussed topics and overtaking the slump of the Kenyan shilling against the dollar. Most parents prefer that their children join the best-performing high schools since they are not only guaranteed of scoring highly in their final exams but also getting the privilege of taking the most competitive courses available such as medicine, dentistry, law and engineering, which they later either drop out or transfer to other more accommodative courses. Some at times brave on to graduate and that’s why we have ‘doctors’ like Mugo wa Wairimu.