By Jones Anlimah
A total of 32,400 students in the Volta region on Monday, August 7, joined their counterparts nationwide to write this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE). Out of this, 16,293 are boys, while 16,107 are girls. This year’s examination is being written at 108 examination centers across the region.
The Basic Education Certificate Examinations within the Ho municipality of the Volta region began without any major challenges. A total of 1,116 schools within the region have presented students to undertake this year’s examinations.
A total of 3,571 students are expected to write the exams in the Ho Municipality of the Volta Region. 101 schools within the Municipality presented students for the examination, which is being written in 10 centers.
A total of eight schools with 337 students are expected to write the exams at the Kabore school examination center. Out of this, 335 actually reported for the first day, as the news team was told that one student had died while another was sick. Students were busily writing the Religious and Moral Education paper when the news team visited the center.
The news team was told that there were no issues with persons with disabilities as there were none present in the center. According to the supervisor, Mrs. Makafui Doe Ama Fiagbe, there were no challenges with logistics, and the Exams started at 9:15 a.m.
524 students are expected to write the exams at Mawuli SHS Center A, while 532 are expected to write at Center B. There was one absentee at Center A and two absentees at Center B. Eleven schools are writing the exams at Centre A while nine schools are at Center B. Students were busily writing their RME paper when the news team visited the school.
The situation was the same at the Mawuko Senior High School Examination Centre. Here, 16 schools with a student population of 424 and one absentee were writing the Exams. The students had just finished their RME paper when the news team visited the center. According to the supervisor, Hopeson Selassie Anyam, there was no student with any form of disability, and the exams started at exactly 9:05 a.m.
In an interview with the Volta Regional Director of Education, Mr. Francis Yaw Agbemadi, adequate measures have been put in place to ensure the smooth conduct of the exams in the region.
“We as a region have also formed teams to monitor the conduct of the examination in the various districts. Vehicle arrangements to cart and transport students to some centers have also been made,” he said.
Mr. Agbemadi added, “they should be confident because whatever the teachers have taught them and whatever they have learnt is what is going to crop up in the exams, so they should be confident and read the examination instructions very well understand it before writing whatever they want to write. I will also want to urge them to refrain from any form of examination malpractice which will lead to the cancelation of their papers.”
Twenty-two candidates with special needs are writing the exams in the region.