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This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for final
year junior high school (JHS) students willbegin on Monday, June 15,
with a total of 438,030 candidates participating.
The candidates are made up of 229,724 males and 208,306 females. The
examination will end on Friday, June 19.
The number of candidates for this year represents an increase of
15,084 over last year’s figure of 422,946 final year JHS students who
registered for the examination. Some 13,434 basic schools — publicand
private — are taking partin the examination, which would be written at
1,546 centres across the country.
Supervision
The examination will be supervised by 1,546 supervisors and 1,466
assistant supervisors. A total of 15,326 invigilators who will be
swapped in the courseof the examination will take charge of the
candidates. Thenumber of candidates who will be writing the
information and communications technology (ICT) paper is 414,251 while
that for French is 180,535.
Regional breakdown
A breakdown of the total candidates made available to the Daily
Graphic showed that the Ashanti Region was presenting the highest
number of candidates — 87,815. They are made up of 45,197 males and
42,618 females.
The Greater Accra Region follows with 78,436, made up of 37,915 males
and 40,521 females.
The Central Region is presenting the third highest number of 45,900
candidates (23,936 males and 21,964 females).
The Western Region has 44,094 candidates that comprise 23,602 males
and 20,492 females while the Eastern Region has 41,172, with 22,034
being males and 19,138 females; the Brong Ahafo Region also has
41,026candidates who have registered for the examination; 22,278 males
and 18,751 females.
Thirty-six thousand, two hundred and sixty-seven (21,019 males and
15,711 females) candidates will sit for the examination in the
Northern Region while 31,267 candidates — 17,351 males and 13,916
females —are writing in the Volta Region.
The Upper East Region has registered 19,069candidates (9,649 males
and 9,420 females), while 12,521 candidates — 6,746 males and 5,775
females — will sit for the examination in the Upper West Region.The
examination will begin with English Language on June 15 and end with
ICT on June 19, 2015.
In a related development, the Ashanti Regional secretariat of the
Muslim Students Association has senta goodwill message to junior high
school candidates writing this year’s BECE. “We pray and hope that you
comeout of the examination with flying colours,” a statement issued in
Kumasi last Monday, said.
Advice to candidates
The statement, however, advised candidates to conductthemselves
properly before, during and after the examination, and to observe
strictly, the examination rules and regulations.
It also urged parents to continue to offer support to their wards to
pass well in the examinations. It called for collaboration between
parents and teachers to appropriately ensure discipline and strict
adherence to the rules to avoid any exams malpractice.
Credit: Graphic Online
