“Unfortunately, we do not have a lab, so I can’t show you ‘live live’. But if you are lucky one day to enter a lab, try out these things and you will remember. You can try these reactions.”
During our KCSE exams, we trekked some 15km to the neighbouring school for the practicals –
with our teacher spending the first half hour teaching us the difference between a burette and a pipette.I scored a
strong D in chemistry – a record that was only broken recently. I would have scored an A- if our school had been well equipped.
Hate at first sight
The first practical exam was physics. Physics and I were a case of hate at first sight. I dropped it in Form 1 week 1 – although I continued sitting physics exams for two years – writing only my name in many of the tests!
Physics wasn’t that tough for me but I never saw any way pendulums were going to add any value to my life!On the day the physics exam was sat last week, we were served early lunch after the practical sessions began and we left the physics teacher to handle the exams as our food was getting cold.
"Even if we had attended the entire session, I doubt we would have been of any help.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt...
-Mark Twain