‘WE ASKED QUESTIONS DURING EXAM’

DWALILE –Some of the 31 pupils of Dwalile Primary School who were ordered to repeat Standard Five because of malpractice say they need proof that they flouted examination rules. 

The frustrated and agitated pupils said the only thing they did during last year’s Swaziland Primary Certificate (SPC) examination was to seek clarity from invigilators on questions they did not understand.

They refuted allegations of malpractice levelled against them. One pupil wondered why they were being punished for “asking.”
Another one argued that no official from the Ministry of Education and Training or Examinations Council of Swaziland bothered to tell them why they were being punished.

“I was at school on Tuesday and Wednesday and no one told me why I was not proceeding to Form One. What have I done to get this treatment? Our teachers usually tell us why they beat us but we haven’t been told why we are repeating Standard Five,” one pupil, aged 16, said.
“This is really unfair to me because I didn’t do anything that warrants punishment. I never copied. Okay, let me see my scripts to see that I indeed copied.”

“How can they say I copied when I didn’t?”
The Times SUNDAY told him that their school was found guilty of malpractice.
Deadpanned, he asked, “What is malpractice?”

When it was explained to him that the word could mean a lot of wrongdoings committed by those who sat for the exam, he was not satisfied at all: “leligama utsi lingasho lokuningi ini nje (you say the word can mean a lot of wrongdoings, what are those wrongdoings?”

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