A total of 395,582 candidates from 9,502 public and private junior high schools nationwide, have been registered to write this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), which begins on Monday, April 19 and ends on Friday, April 23.
The examination will be written at 1,227 centres.
The candidates are made up of 181,040 females and 214,542 males including the hearing and visually impaired.
This represents 17.3 per cent increase over last year’s BECE which registered 337,110 candidates from 9,212 schools.
The Senior Public Affairs Officer of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, who made these known to the Times in Accra, said the Ashanti Region registered the highest number of 82,344 candidates while the Upper West Region registered the lowest candidates of 9,271.
She gave the breakdown of figures of the other region as Greater Accra – 66,541; Eastern – 44,027; Central – 41,964; Western – 38,819; Brong-Ahafo – 37,978; Volta – 32,162; Northern – 26,917 and Upper East – 15,559.
Mrs Teye-Cudjoe advised the candidates to obey the simple rules and regulations governing the conduct of the examination and to desist from indulging in any form of malpractices which could lead to the cancellation of their results.
She reminded candidates that the BECE was an extension of their normal class worl and like any other examination.
Mrs Teye-Cudjoe assured the candidates that could pass the examination without resorting to cheating “because the questions are within your reach and are based in the syllabi”.
“Don’t panic, just think to recollect what you had been taught at school,” she urged the candidates.
Mrs Teye-Cudjoe also advised the candidates and parents to be wary of people who might purport to have in their possession questions of any sort.
The examination will be written at 1,227 centres.
The candidates are made up of 181,040 females and 214,542 males including the hearing and visually impaired.
This represents 17.3 per cent increase over last year’s BECE which registered 337,110 candidates from 9,212 schools.
The Senior Public Affairs Officer of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, who made these known to the Times in Accra, said the Ashanti Region registered the highest number of 82,344 candidates while the Upper West Region registered the lowest candidates of 9,271.
She gave the breakdown of figures of the other region as Greater Accra – 66,541; Eastern – 44,027; Central – 41,964; Western – 38,819; Brong-Ahafo – 37,978; Volta – 32,162; Northern – 26,917 and Upper East – 15,559.
Mrs Teye-Cudjoe advised the candidates to obey the simple rules and regulations governing the conduct of the examination and to desist from indulging in any form of malpractices which could lead to the cancellation of their results.
She reminded candidates that the BECE was an extension of their normal class worl and like any other examination.
Mrs Teye-Cudjoe assured the candidates that could pass the examination without resorting to cheating “because the questions are within your reach and are based in the syllabi”.
“Don’t panic, just think to recollect what you had been taught at school,” she urged the candidates.
Mrs Teye-Cudjoe also advised the candidates and parents to be wary of people who might purport to have in their possession questions of any sort.
