This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for schools and private candidates is underway throughout the country. A total of 600,714 candidates, comprising 300, 323 males and 300,391 females from 18,993 participating schools registered for the school examination.
According to our reporters Brenda Donkor and Clara Obuobi who visited some schools in Accra earlier, students, teachers and invigilators were at the centres waiting for the examination to commence.
The centres visited are Kanda Cluster of schools and Amasaman M/A.
This is the first time WAEC has introduced multiple choice questions mixed up with different numbers to help prevent examination malpractice.
Visiting some centers in the Greater Accra Region, as some students were learning in their classrooms, others were also looking for where they will be writing their exams while the teachers of the respective schools were arranging the classrooms for their students with only few security personnel on ground.
In an interaction with a teacher from De Youngster’s International School, Dimbo Abdulai, he said they have prepared the students well to deliver their best in the week long exams.
Some candidates from various schools spoke to GBC News about their hopes and expectations for the exams.
The Greater Accra Region is second highest with 105,539 candidates, made up of 50,815 males and 54,824 females.
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The examination took off without hitches in all the designated centres with few absenteeism. At the T. I Ahmadiyya Senior Secondary School, 494 candidates were writing the first paper.
The environment was serene and peaceful. The two centres recorded four absentees. The supervisor in charge of centre B, Ahmed Boampong said the papers arrived on time.
At the Ahmadiyya Junior Secondary School Centre, four of the 263 candidates were absent. The Supervisor, Mustapha Abubakr said invigilators have been taken through the rules and regulations of the examination as well as the consequences involved in malpractices.