As 404's head back to their final term in high school, one cannot help but feel sorry for their Liberian counterparts. It would appear that high school leavers in LB (that's the acronym for Liberia, like the way we have TZ or UG...) failed their version of KCSE en masse! Yaani, hata student mmoja hakupita!
In a press statement released by UL (The University of Liberia) on August 21, 2013 the University said, no students out rightly earned the scores of 50% in math and 70% in English a requirement set by University of Liberia Faculty Senate as the passing scores for the undergraduate entrance examinations. No candidate who sat for the graduate programs, Law School and School of Pharmacy Exams earned the scores of 70% also set by the UL senate as a threshold to pass, the release said. "Holding these results constant, no candidate would have otherwise been admitted to the University for Academic 2013/ 2014 in the above programs," the released added.
However, in response to this massive failure, the Student Representative to the Student Council, Alhadji Kromah, says he sees recent entrance examination results of the University of Liberia as frustrating and disappointing because the University allowed only two persons to correct the exam paper.
"You cannot have two persons correcting over 23,000 papers in less than one month," Kromah said. He blames the massive failures on a 'zero-entry' policy aimed at reducing the number of students enrolling into UL, "you cannot create an impression here like Liberian students are not learning anything just to reduce the enrollment," Kromah said.
Whatever the case, we're wishing the Class of '13 all the best in their forthcoming exams and we believe that we will not witness any such failure. We're also praying that the GoK doesn't come up with a 'zero-entry' policy of its own.
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