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2024 BECE for JHS 3 students: What it is likely to be like

WISDOM K.E HAMMOND 1 year ago

The 2025 BECE for JHS 3 students will be the second BECE to be conducted based on the new curriculum.

This means WAEC will mentain the changes intorduced in 2024 regarding how the examination will conducted and the struture of the questions. This will cover how the examination is conducted, the number of subjects, and the way questions are set for candidates.

In addition to the above, the number of subjects written by the candidates increased to 10 in 2024.

Due to the changes to be effected, the Ghana Education Service issued a directive that all JHS2 students should be promoted to JHS3 in 2024. This directive was given prior to the promotion of JHS2 students to JHS3 in 2023.

The main reason given was that repeating such students would not be in their interest since they were the last batch of candidates educated under the old curriculum. This year no such directive will be issued.

The New Standards-Based Curriculum (2019) was the basis for all the changes that were effected to make the 2024 BECE different from those written from 1990 to 2023. The new changes will be applied to the 2025 BECE as well.

In 2024, the Ghana Education Service (GES). The Ministry of Education (MoE) and the West African Examination Council (WAEC) revealed the modality for the conduct of the 2024 BECE for final Junior High School students so late in April. However in 2025, the sample questions released by WAEC in 2024 and the 2024 BECE questions will serve as a guide for preperation.

What subjects are likely to be written during the 2025 BECE?

2025 BECE for JHS 3 students/ candidates will cover 10 subjects, thus one more than their predecessors however, they will be writing two new subjects.

The two new subjects are Career Technology and Creative Arts and Design which can be said to be the previous Basic Design and Technology Subject.

English Language –Download the syllabus here
Mathematics –Download the syllabus here
Science –Download the syllabus here
Social Studies –Download the syllabus here
Career Technology –Download the syllabus here
Ghanaian Language & Culture –Download the syllabus here
French –Download the syllabus here
Creative Arts and Design –Download the syllabus here
Religious and Moral Education (RME) –Download the syllabus here
Computing –Download the syllabus Here

2025 BECE Standard Grading Scale

Schools, students, and parents aiming at good grades should consider challenging themselves with these grades as their targets.

As the saying goes: Hard training …easy battle.

Learners should be challenged to make good grades by scoring higher marks as they prepare for the BECE.

Candidates who want to be placed in the best schools must work at scoring better grades from the start of their mocks and be consistent with their study and performance. Candidates who consistently do well and score between 85 and 100 through the mock for the various subjects will often do well at the BECE.

READ: 2024 BECE Home Mock Registration Underway

Score	Grade
90 – 100	A+ 1 Excellent (STAR)
80 – 89	A 1 Very Good
70 – 79	B+ 2 Good
65 – 69	B 3 Credit
60 – 64	C+ 4 Satisfactory
55 – 59	C 5 Weak
50 – 54	D 6 Very weak
0 – 49	Fail

When will the 2025 BECE be written?

Since the academic calendar has reverted to the standard calendar which starts in September/October and Ends in July/August, the 2025 BECE will be written in June 2025.

How can BECE Home Mock Help Your Ward Excel?

The innovative BECE Home Mock was introduced nationwide by Ghana Education News to offer excellent mocks for BECE candidates in the comfort of their homes with the help of parents. With the BECE Home Mock, we turn every home into a mock center.

HOW THE BECE HOME MOCK WORKS AT EDUCATION-NEWS CONSULT

The BECE home Mocks are administered to candidates in their various homes through their parents.
The exam is set by top examiners and experienced subject teachers.
Mock Questions are delivered to parents in their PDF format.
Parents print the questions and carry out the mock in their homes.
During the mock, parents or their representatives at the home serve as the invigilators.
The examination is written based on the timetable issued, however, we allow for flexibility since the examination questions do not leak and no student knows the other candidate taking the exam.
At the end of each exam/paper, parents scan answers for each subject and send them to Ghana Education News for marking and grading. We provide an app and a set of procedures for scanning.
After marking the scripts, students are graded per subject, the examiners give each parent an examiner’s report which explains all student-specific strengths and weaknesses for each subject and questions if need be. We offer professional examination-passing recommendations for improvement.
The student’s result and the examiner’s reports are hosted on our website and using the student’s index number or parent’s phone number as the index number, you can access the results from home on a desktop or a laptop.
The home mocks are administered from Friday evening to Sunday evening to ensure, a candidate’s normal school hours are not affected by the exam.
At the end of the marking. We make available to the candidate, the examiner’s suggested solutions for the questions for each mock, and the marked scripts or papers to aid students in preparing and polishing their answers to such questions.
Those who did not take part in the mock can always buy the questions and the marking schemes and download them instantly for practice purposes.