The Ghana Education Service (GES) has assured the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates and all stakeholders that management has worked very closely with the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to ensure the smooth conduct of the examination throughout the country.
GES is also urging the candidate to eschew all forms of examination malpractices before, during and after the exams.
A total of 552,276 pupils comprising 276, 988 males and 275,288 females will take the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) across the country today.
There are 18,501 participating schools and 2,023 examination Centres across the country.
In the central Region, a total of 55,687 pupils have registered to take the examination, consisting of 31, 610 males and 31,577 females respectively.
The Cape Coast Metropolis has eleven (11) designated Centres which are Adisadel College ‘A’ and ‘B’, Mfantsipim School ‘A’ and ‘B’, University Practice Senior High School ‘A’ and ‘B’, Holy Child School, St. Augustine’s College and Efutu Senior High Technical School.
3,771 candidates made up of 1,791boys and 1,980 girls from public and private basic schools are expected to write the exams.
In all the candidates are writing nine (9) papers spanning 5 days (October 17-October 21, 2022).
Speaking exclusively to ATL FM, the Central Regional Branch Controller of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Mrs. Lillian Frimpong notes that her outfit has adequately prepared to hold this year’s examination.
She added that so far, stationaries have been disbursed and both supervisors and pupils have also been briefed about the processes.
To that end, she urged the pupils to remain calm, focused and refrain from engaging in illegal activities.
“I would want to assure the candidates that they’ve studied enough right from JHS 1 to JHS 3. They’ve had enough tuition so they should just relax. The exams is within their limits. They can write it. All that they will be writing is from their syllabus. They have been writing mock exams over and over again, so I would want to assure them to relax, go into the exams room trusting that whatever they’ve learnt is what is going to come” she said.
Mrs. Frimpong further entreated the stakeholders in the education sector to endeavour to visit the candidates on time before they enter the exams room since their visit tends to affect the candidates while they write the exams.
She assured that stringent measures have been instituted to maintain the credibility of the examinations.
“We have maintained the measures that we employed last year. However, in this year’s exams, we have rather strengthened those measures. Some of the measures put in place is that we have secured our depots and our papers are all released at the same time everywhere” she stated.
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Additionally, she said the WAEC has put in rigorous measures to ensure the sanity of this examination.
Meanwhile, on the issue of pupils with special needs, she emphasized that measures have been put in place to help such persons.
She said, “arrangements have been made for candidates with special needs. During the registrations, district directors furnished us with information about candidates with special needs, so through that, we know the number of such students taking the exams. So we have made provisions for them.
Mrs. Frimpong said for the visually partially impaired, large prints would be given to them and would be given extra time to write and finish their papers.
“For the totally visually impaired their brails are ready and secured and if the candidates cannot come to the exams centre on their own, they are allowed to be assisted to their seat,” she hinted.
Source: Emmanuella Ama Gyamfi/ATLFMNEWS
