I failed my KCPE but it was not the end of the road for me

In 2002, I was twelve years old and in class eight. I had had the fortune of having started schooling while young. I was always the youngest in my classes. I’ve had a thing with numbers that has made me love the language of mathematics. Though I always excelled in my maths class ever since I can remember, I was an average pupil.

When I sat for my KCSE – the final exam that transitions students from primary to secondary school, I only managed to score 235 marks out of the possible 500 marks. That was a fail. There was no good secondary school that would admit me with such marks. But my low performance was pegged on the fact that I had no goals or aims.