A GOOD GRADE WILL TAKE YOU TO UNIVERSITY BUT A GOOD CHARACTER WILL KEEP YOU THERE
NTV anchor and show host Larry Madowo has revealed what he scored in the Kenya Ceritificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination. Madowo said that he performed 'poorly' in the national exams prompting his relatives to demand that he repeats Form Four. “I left high school with a B minus, the final sentence after four years of massive potential but hardly any focus,” Madowo stated. The journalist noted that he was opposed to the idea of repeating the class and rebelliously went against his relatives' wishes. “That was never going to happen as I had already developed a healthy disdain for academics in general, and its most favoured method of torture in particular – examinations,” he wrote in his FrontRow column on the Daily Nation. In his article titled 'So you got an A in KCSE? Big deal! It has lost meaning today', Madowo penned down how the most coveted top grade had become meaningless following the widespread cheating in the national examinations....