About 21 candidates for New Vision Preparatory School in the Mankesim in the central region could not take part in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination BECE.
Speaking to our Central Regional correspondent Jerry on Plan B FM morning show NKOSUONSEM, with Nana Yaw Abrompah, he said that the proprietor of New Vision Preparatory School collected an amount of Ghs300 each from his candidate but refused to register them to sit for the exams.
The candidates who were fully prepared for the exams got to the center last Monday and realized that they were not registered to sit for the exams, parents of these 21 candidates upon hearing the information matched to the center which resulted into exchanged of words between the examiners. They were redirected to the proprietor who was on the run.
A total of 602,457 final-year junior high school (JHS) students across Ghana are writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which started last Monday.
The total candidature of 602,457 represents an increase of 49,049 over last year’s figure of 553,408.
The examination would be held simultaneously for both school and private candidates.
Both examinations started last Monday, August 7 to Friday, August 11, 2023.
The BECE-SC is made up of 300,323 males and 300,391 females while the BECE-PC will involve 889 males and 854 females, statistics from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) have indicated.
Eighteen thousand, nine hundred and eighty-three public and private JHSs will participate in the BECE-SC, which is mainly for students who have undergone nine years of basic education.
They will write the BECE at 2,137 centers with one supervisor each.
There will be 2,000 assistant supervisors and 21,025 invigilators.
Next is the Central Region with 68,035 candidates — 34,166 males and 33,869 females.
The Western and Western North regions will present 60,528 candidates (30,825 males and 29,703 females).
Fifty-eight thousand, three hundred and eleven candidates, made up of 29,703 males and 28,608 females, will sit the exam in the Eastern Region while 55,617 others (27,882 males and 27,735 females) will take part in the examination in the Ahafo, Bono and Bono East regions.
The Northern, North East and Savannah regions will present a total of 46,783 candidates: 24,706 males and 22,077 females.
The Volta and Oti regions will also have 44,221 candidates (22,723 males and 21,498 females) while Upper East Region would have 22,437 candidates (10,558 males and 11,879 females) with the Upper West Region, 14,804 candidates (7,163 males and 7,641 females).
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