2025 BECE Essay types to watch out for with sample questions

The 2025 BECE English Language paper will be challenging, especially the essay section in Section B. However, preparing well, revising your composition questions, and mastering how to brainstorm and plan your essays can significantly improve your ability to write a better, well-organized, and informative composition.

Without wasting time, let us examine WAEC’s traditional essay topics and some sample questions for practice.

In the last 10 years, WAEC has consistently included a letter question in the BECE English Language paper. Often, it is either a formal or an informal letter. In some instances, both formal and informal letter questions are included in the same BECE.

In 2025, we anticipate that one of these letter types will be among the three composition questions WAEC requires students to answer.

Candidates must revise these essays by practising as many questions as possible from now onwards. The goal of this practice should be to score at least 25/30 for each letter (formal or informal) written during your revision exercises.

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Familiarise yourself with the distinct features of each essay type, and avoid mixing them when answering a question. Therefore, when answering formal letter questions, use only formal letter features.

Solve the following questions as part of your revision exercise for the English Language paper. Before attempting each one, determine whether the letter should be formal or informal.

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2025 BECE Essay types to watch out for and their sample questions for students and teachers

• Your community is struggling with poor school buildings that have become dangerous. However, you have a friend in another country who is willing to help. Write a letter to your friend, describing the current state of the school buildings, and suggest three ways your friend can assist the community.
• As the Assemblyman for your community, you have identified that the community lacks electricity, which is negatively affecting its development. Write a letter to the Minister of Energy to request support for the community.
• Your friend has been hospitalised after suffering a life-threatening malaria attack. Write a letter to him, suggesting three ways he can prevent future occurrences of this health problem.
• Your school has selected you to write a letter to the Daily Graphic to express your concern about a negative and untrue news report they published about your schoolmates’ alleged involvement in drug abuse. Write this letter.
• As the outgoing school prefect, write a letter to your head teacher, explaining three challenges the school is facing that the incoming school prefect should be helped to address.
• You are about to travel to your village for a 14-day vacation. Write a letter to your friend about three expectations you have for the trip.

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For each of the essays above, be sure to identify its type. Note down its features, and brainstorm the points to include. Finally, write the essays and share them with your English teacher for marking and grading. Students and teachers are encouraged to solve all the 2025 BECE essay types (sample questions) here. Target at least 25/30 in each instance. Also do well to always read through your essays.