6 Changes in the 2024 BECE Exam Format

The BECE will see about 6 changes in the 2024 BECE Exam format per our analysis as an education news portal and in this post, we share this with you.
The 2024 BECE will see several changes to the examination, especially when this year’s candidates will be the first batch of students to write the exam per the new curriculum.
Per information available to Ghanaeducation.org, the 2024 BECE registration will commence on February 26, 2024, and end on April 5, 2024.
However, the examination will be administered by WAEC from Monday, July 8th, to Friday, July 12th, 2024.
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6 Changes in the 2024 BECE Exam Format
Below are the identified 6 changes in the 2024 BECE Exam Format
#1. New topics across all subjects
New topics have been introduced in all the subjects as a result of the new curriculum called the Common Core Curriculum.
In 2020, the NaCCA championed the introduction of the new Common Core Curriculum for Basic 7–10 after that of the basic schools was introduced in 2019.
#2. New Questions Never Asked
WAEC, as a result of the above, has several new topics from which to set questions that have never been asked at the BECE.
The 2024 BECE will be based on this new curriculum, hence the new topics introduced per subject.
#3. For the first time in many years since COVID-19, the BECE will be administered earlier.
Thus, in July 2024 instead of October or November, which has been the case since 2019, COVID-19 disorganised Ghana’s education system, and the standard calendar until the 2024–2025 academic year was started in October 2023. This new calendar, which was released by GES, stated that the BECE was going to be written in July 2024.
What are the two newly introduced subjects in the 2024 BECE?
#4. Students will be introduced to two newly introduced subjects at the BECE.
They will write about Career Technology as well as creative Arts and Design, which are the two news subjects. Following the introduction of the aforementioned subjects, an entirely new curriculum was also created by NaCCA. Students will be writing the Career Technology as well as Creative Arts and Design which have some resemblance to Basic Design and Technology administered in the previous BECE
#5. For the first time, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) paper will have a name change.
Students will not write the Computing paper in place of ICT. This subject has also seen the introduction of new modern computing topics which broaden the scope of the curriculum with topics in AI, Programming and other areas.
#6. Students are expected to be introduced to new question structures
Students are expected to be introduced to new question structures that will require them to apply their knowledge in a case study or application of knowledge questions. These types of questions are yet to be confirmed by GES however, some of these new approaches to testing candidates can be seen being applied in the Education-News Consult Mock examinations organized by this portal.
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How many subjects will BECE candidates write?
Candidates will write at least I subjects and at most 10 subjects. There are schools that write both French and Ghanaian. Such schools will add these two subjects to their eight core subjects for the BECE. For schools that do not write the optional subjects, they will write only the eight main core subjects. Where a school does not write French, then its students are likely to write nine subjects in total.
Below are the confirmed subjects for the 2024 BECE to be administered in July.
Core Subjects (Confirmed)
- English Language
- Social Studies
- Religious and Moral Education (RME)
- Mathematics
- Science
- Career Technology
- Creative Art and Design
- Computing
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Optional Subjects (Confirmed)
- French
- Arabic
- Ghanaian language (11 languages)
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