All
is set for the first-ever resit of the Basic Education Certificate
Examination (BECE) for private candidates, which starts on Monday,
February 16 to 20.
In all, 1,181 candidates are expected to converge on 11 examination centres throughout the country.
All
the candidates, with the exception of those from the Bia District in
the Western Region, will write the examination at venues created in the
regional capitals.
The candidates in the Bia District will write their exam at Esiam, the district capital.
Out
of the total number of candidates who registered for the examination,
1,136 candidates are expected to write Mathematics, while 1,057 of them
will write English Language.
The Western Region recorded the
highest number of 276 candidates. Out of the number 200 registered in
the Bia District for which reason an examination centre has been created
in the district capital.
The Upper East Region registered the lowest number of 28 candidates.
In
all, 75 examiners are expected to mark the examination scripts from
March 25 to April 20, 2015, and the results are expected to be released
in May 2015.
Second chance
The private BECE is an
opportunity for BECE candidates who missed out in the placement exercise
under the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) to
get a second chance to further their education.
It is open
to candidates who are rewriting the examination because they did not
perform well in specific subjects as well as those desirous to pursue
their education and are, therefore, writing the examination for the
first time as out-of-school candidates.
Speaking in an interview,
the Principal Public Affairs Officer of the West African Examinations
Council (WAEC), Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, said all was set for the
examination and that all the examination materials were at the various
regional depots of WAEC.
Making history
While wishing the
candidates the best of luck in the examination, she reminded them that
they were making history as the first batch of candidates to resit and
therefore, owed it a duty to set the tone for a malpractice-free
examination.
Mrs Teye-Cudjoe was confident that because of the
few candidates who would be writing the examination, supervision would
be effective.
For instance, she said, only 161 candidates would be writing the examination in the Greater Accra Region.
She
therefore cautioned them to stay away from any examination malpractice,
such as carrying foreign materials and mobile phones into the
examination halls, “Because the law will catch up with them.”
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