PRESENTATION OF THE 2010 GCE RESULTS

FOR KUPE-MWANENGUBA

The presentation is divided into two parts. Part one treats the coveted 100% Score and, part two discusses the reality revealed by the statistic and its implications.

Part One: The Coveted 100% Score At The 2010 GCE Session

On July 30th 2010, Mr. Edienkwelle asked the following question with regard to the 2010 Cameroon General Certificate of Education Results, “I am confused. Are these 2007 or 2010 results?”

This question was justified, for an earlier posting presented the Registrar’s usual remarks that precede the actual results. Regrettably, the remarks presented were those of the 2007 GCE Session at which GSS Nyandong and GSS Elumba each scored 100%.

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We present below 2010 Results as concerns the Kupe-Mwanenguba Division, for the edification of BACDA-USA and all of the people of Kupe-Mwanenguba.

The 2010 GCE Results show improvements over last year, even in Kupe-Mwanenguba Division. As usual, Mission schools steal the show with a battery of 100%, most of them from the Northwest Region. Regrettably Kupe-Mwanenguba has no Mission secondary school, except the Catholic School opened in Tombel Town in September 2010. Its students do not yet sit the GCE Examination. In comparison, one may rhetorically ask teachers and school administrators: “Why do Southwest schools and especially Kupe-Mwanenguba schools not perform as well?”

Why, relatively,do Kupe-Mwanenguba Schools perform so unconvingsingly? Even when these schools score 100%, as did Unity Comprehensive High School (UCHS) Tombel in the past (it presented two candidates and the two passed at the AL), the number of students is alarmingly low and the grades not topmost. In 2007, GSS Nyandong presented nine candidates at the Ordinary Level and scored !00%. In 2009, UCHS Tombel presented thirteen candidates at the Ordinary Level and scored 100%. In all these cases no candidate produced the outstanding grades to merit mentioning in the national honours list.

At the 2010 Session, no native of Kupe-Mwanenguba and no candidate within Kupe-Mwanenguba is in the honours list (OL and AL) as opposed to several in 2007. Are our brains getting stunted? Our schools are not the only ones that are rural and suffer from the accute inadequacy of staff and instructional materials. Our soils, climate and food are amongst the best. That is why our children were usually the most numerous of any single tribal group in anyclass at Sasse, Bali, Okoyong, TTCs Kumba, Bambui, Batibo, etc. until the 1970s. What is going wrong?

Edienkwelle' s trick of encouraging Bakossi schools to score 100% seems to work. How else can we explain the fact that one other Bakossi school, GBSS), Ndom, has scored 100% this year?

In 2007, GSS Nyandong in Tombel Sub-Division is a young school, opened in 2000. It surprised everyone by being the first Bakossi School in Kupe-Mwanenguba to receive a prize for scoring 100% at the GCE. Its outstanding performance had spurred Edienkwelle and his friends to patriotic action and they sent a delegation to reward students and staff with cash and text books.

GSS Elumba, in the Mbo area, Nguti Sub-Division of Kupe-Mwanenguba also scored 100% in 2007. Opened in the year 2000, like Nyandong, it is young, rural and has many difficulties.

In 2010, Government Bilingual Secondary School (GBSS) Ndom,in Tombel Sub-Division, became the Star for Bakossi and Kupe-Mwanenguba at the Cameroon GCE. Opened in 2003, this isa much younger school and, it graduates its third batch of twelve students, scoring 100%: 03 students passed in eight papers each,

05 passed in seven papers each,

01 passed in six papers and,

03 passed in five papers each.

Part Two: Analytical Presentation Of K-M 2010 GCE Results By Centre

Centre or School Sub-Div. Level Sat Pass % Score Remarks

1024:GHS Nyasoso Tombel OL 79 43 54.43 Average

1024 Nyasoso External Tombel OL 91 11 15.95 Very Poor

1043 GHS Njungo Upper

Nkongho, Mbo Nguti OL 17 13 76.42 Good

1083 GHS Nguti Nguti OL 57 39 68.42 Fair

1094 UCHS Tombel Tombel OL 33 18 54.55 Average

1099 GHS Bangem Bangem OL 96 73 76.04 Good

1140 GSS Mwebah Bangem OL 26 09 34.62 Poor

1141 GSS Elumba Mbo Nguti OL 30 17 56.67 Average

1165 GSS Nyandong Tombel OL 15 09 60.00 Fair

1179 Tombel External Tombel OL 171 35 20.47 Very Poor

1205 GSS Ebonji Tombel OL 101 42 41.58 Poor

1226 GBHS Tombel Tombel OL 281 130 46.26 Poor

1344 GBSS Mwambong Bangem OL 51 34 66.67 Fair

1434 GSS Ngusi Tombel OL 90 49 54.44 Fair

1444 GBSS Ndom Tombel OL 12 12 100.00 Very Good

13 secondary schools 03 Sub-Divisions 1,135 534 Average:58.5%=Fair

1024 GHS Nyasoso Tombel AL 42 33 78.57 Good

1043 GBHS Njungo Nguti AL 06 04 66.67 Fair

1069 Nyasoso External Tombel AL 23 10 43.48 Poor

1083 GHS Nguti Nguti AL 17 14 82.35 Good

1094 UCHS Tombel Tombel AL l8 11 61.11 Fair

1090 Nguti External Nguti AL 18 05 27.78 Very Poor

1099 GHS Bangem Bangem AL 58 50 86.21 Good

1108 Bangem External Bangem AL 26 16 61.59 Fair

1179 Tombel External Tombel AL 48 18 37.50 Very Poor

1226 GHS Tombel Tombel AL 167 107 64.07 Fair

06 High Schools 03 Sub-Divisions 423 268 Average:61.33=Fair

These results demonstrate that the schools in Kupe-Mwanenguba contribute a very minute fraction to the total number of candidates that sit the GCE Examination. No centre had 300 candidates who sat. Only GBHS Tombel registered 281 at the OL and 167 at the AL. The Division registered a total of 1,558 candidates, (1,135 at OL and, 423 at AL). This shows that the school population of Kupe-Mwanenguba is relatively low. The fact that enrolments are low ought to engender better teaching and produce a higher success rate, notwithstanding the inadequacy of instructional material and, of the staff in numbers and quality.

However, this is not the case. Rather, Kupe-Mwanenguba’s contribution to the global national success is even much smaller, 802 successful candidates, (534 out of 1135 at the OL and, 268 out of 423 at the AL). It produces the averages of 58.5% at the OL and 61.33% at the AL respectively.

Three schools scored less than 50% at the OL and, the two external centres have each scored less than 30%. At the AL, no external centre had a 40% score. On the whole, AL results are better than the OL, but no significant outstanding grades are scored. Sciences do not occupy an important place. This puts a question mark on the advance of scientific and technical education in Bakossiland. It must be a cause for concern.


S.N. Ejedepang-Koge
2603 Crane Court

Naperville, IL 60564, USA.

August 4th 2010.