What was the average age of the candidates? Might they be recent university graduates? 90% of recent graduates [around 2004 - 2010 give or take] are absolutely bure kabisa!!! They are what I'd call the "mwakenya society". Students who rely entirely on copying - short notes, discussing, passing answers around, googling etc. - to pass exams. They use the 90 - 10 approach. 90% copying, 10% cramming. If you put such individuals in a situation where there is zero tolerance to copying and questions are primary application questions - as opposed to state, define, list etc. - then they are done.

A lady I know from UON once confessed she can't walk into an exam room without a "mwakenya" - even if she's not planning to use it! Same lady told me that some "big shots" in her class rarely sit for CATs or do assignments - they pay other students for the "service".

@Kadonye, careful careful you are painting with a very very broad brush there.

@extrabaraka - are you sure of the cfa 3 results. Juu I know a mamacita who passed level 3

And what are you doing about it? Cheating has reached epidemic levels in most universities! If you are sincere, you should raise hell. Talk to management - citing specific cases & lecturers, seek media attention - letters to editors, watchman, jicho pevu, k24 etc. People hate negative publicity. They would act in a heart beat.

You can't just abhor cheating in silence unless at the back of your mind you are hoping one day it might come in handy.

Really?

@Drake, I happen to know a good number of the CFA candidates around,and my data is based on that sample...For level 1&2, refer to a thread posted some time in July.

All-in-all, there seem to be no explanation why out of the over 600 candidates who sat for their June exam at the Nbi centre, only a tiny fraction made it.....