Form 2

The way the secondary school system is set up here, the students take certification exams at the end of Form 2 and then at the end of Form 4.  It takes about a week to take exams for all of their subjects and if they don't pass enough of them then they have to retake the course until they do.  Form 2 just finished with their exams last week which being in the middle of the term, we get to finish the rest of the term with fewer students to worry about.  Why they put the tests in the middle of the term, I am not sure.  It's just another one of those Malawian quirks that I've stopped trying to figure out.  I don't have any Form 2 classes so it doesn't affect me much other than make it breakfast and lunch duty a little easier to manage.