The West African Examination Council will this year conduct the 2025 BECE for Junior High School candidates based on both the new and old curriculums. This arrangement means that three different sets of candidates will write the 2025 BECE from 9th to 16th June, 2025.
Would the 2025 BECE to be based on the old and new curricula?
Reliable information available to the Ghana Education News portal details the following as the three candidates and the curriculum to be used for each group of candidates.
School candidates, which refers to all candidates being registered by schools, will sit the exam. These candidates are either registered for the 2025 BECE as public school or private school candidates.
The second batch of candidates are all 2024 BECE candidates who failed one or more papers and have registered to resit the examination. These candidates will be administered the same questions that school candidates above will write.
The third and final set of candidates are all former BECE candidates who failed the BECE while the old curriculum was in section. Thus, all candidates who sat the BECE before 2024 and failed can register for the 2025 BECE. Their questions will be set based on the old curriculum. WAEC is expected to continue with this new arrangement until it phases out the BECE resit based on the old curriculum.
Based on the above set of candidates, WAEC has released two official examination timetables for candidates. It has one timetable for 2025 candidates and 2024 BECE candidates who are resitting the exam as private candidates.
The second timetable is for only pre-2024 BECE candidates who want to resit the examination in 2025.
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Parents, teachers, candidates and all stakeholders seeking to be assessed at the BECE based on the old curriculum are to take note of the above and ensure during the registration, they choose the right subjects and indicate the curriculum they are expecting to be assessed with so as to avoid challenges.
Look out for the released timetables and download them from our All 2025 BECE timetables post.
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