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

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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.

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