KCPE and KPSEA exam incidents from the first day
KCPE and KPSEA exam incidents from the first day
Kitui officials have stepped up their search for a seventeen-year-old girl who vanished from their residence early on Monday. The girl was scheduled to take her KCPE exams at a Kitui elementary school, per the police incident report.
She missed her examinations because she vanished from their home together with her three-month-old child.After the incident was reported to the Kabati police station, an investigation has been launched to find her whereabouts. Three female students are said to have written their exams in a hospital following childbirth, according to other incidences that were recorded on the first day of the KCPE/KPSEA exams.
Today at the mother and child hospital Wote in Makueni, a KCPE candidate delivered .According to the incident report, “she is currently taking her exams at the aforementioned facility while being watched.” In a another incident, a 17-year-old applicant from one of the Kitui West schools was forced to take her exam from the hospital following her delivery on Sunday. The report states, “She has received good assistance and is currently taking her math test in the hospital.”
Similar events were recorded in Mwingi, when a candidate at one of the schools experienced labor pains and was sent to the hospital, where she gave birth without incident. The report states, “Arrangements have been made, and she is taking her examination at the said facility.”
On the other hand, in a separate situation, a male student in grade six from Ngumbwa Primary School in Mutitu was taken to Kitui County Referral Hospital because he had a leg fracture and had to take his KPSEA exam there. This occurs concurrently with news that 13 prisoners from Naivasha GK prison were not present for the exams on Monday.
The prison registered 54 applicants for the national exams before the detainees were either freed or moved to other prisons. Twenty-one of them are serving life sentences at a jail that houses nearly 3,000 prisoners, the bulk of whom are enrolled in an education program.
Despite a number of obstacles, the prisoners were all prepared for their tests, according to Hassan Tari, the prison’s officer in charge. Writing the final KCPE exams under the 8-4-4 curriculum, which has been in use since 1985, is at least 1.4 million candidates in number.
The Competency-Based Curriculum will replace the current system, which has drawn criticism for placing increasing emphasis on grades on students. Starting this morning, applicants in the second cohort are also taking the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) tests administered by CBC.
