The Ordinary Level National Examinations were not as difficult as we were fearing. Actually what make things to be hard for some students is the question of their particular learning environment. For instance lack of facilities such as books, because even the regional library itself is short of academic books, thus there is no alternative.

Some local schools also don't have enough teachers, while others could be lazy and unmotivated. The only way out here is for parents to assist their children in studying at home plus buying them books.

Most students hate studying after the normal school hours or during holidays and that is why a number of them performed poorly in the recent national O-LEVEL examinations. Girls have done much better this year because there has been a major educational awakening among female students of late.

Male students seem to be more occupied in sports, group posses, music, movies and other forms of entertainment, but mostly adopting to some pop fashions.

Most students had timed their studying sessions badly that is why the majority could not perform well. A number of them studied quite hard for the Mock examinations expecting them to be difficult, but when the Mocks proved to be easy, the students relaxed, as the result the finals hit them by surprise.

I would advise students to start studying in order to learn not just to pass the examinations. Here there is the need to study practically everything, not just the fields that we feel will come up in the test papers.