Avoid Failure By Checking This July 2023 BECE Home Mock Chief Examiner’s Report

All 2023 BECE candidates should read this July 2023 Examiner’s Report for the July Home Mock to avoid failure.

The Ghana Education News Home Mock Chief Examiners Report provides useful insight into the weaknesses of 2023 BECE candidates, which if not checked will lead to avoidable failure.

It turned out that, 2023 BECE candidates are struggling to answer questions properly in the core subjects and this can negatively affect their performance. Unfortunately, Mock examinations conducted by schools do not provide any additional reports or support, or recommendations to parents on the challenges facing candidates to help deal with them. At best, it may be a word of mouth over a few issues.

However, the Home Mock by Ghanaeducation.org is helping parents know more about their candidate’s strengths, and weaknesses and also provides useful recommendations for improvement.

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Below are some summarized July 2023 BECE Home Mock Chief Examiner’s Report for Teachers and Candidates as we prepare for the 2023 BECE in July

Summary of Chief Examiners Report for Ghana Education News, July 2023 BECE Home Mock (Weakness and errors)

1. 1. Candidates are used to answering questions without writing the correct question numbers. In some instances, candidates write section names instead of question numbers.
   2. Candidates are not able to explain with examples answers provided in Social Studies. Some provide one to three-worded answers for 8 to 10 marks score questions, which is worrying.
   3. Some candidates can not differentiate between a descriptive essay and a friendly letter. Candidates were tasked to write “Describe how your favourite game is played to a friend” Some students jumped into letter writing all because they saw “to a friend” in the question. Teachers need to work on their students to be able to tell the kind of essay to be written.
   4. BECE candidates as they are unable to score good marks in the objective test paper.
   5. Candidates demonstrated low or weak knowledge of topics assessed from forms 1 and 2. Teachers and students need to revise their JHS1 and JHS2 lessons in all subjects. This was more visible in Integrated Science and Mathematics. Candidates could not calculate area, perimeter, not factorize and do simplification. No candidate answered the graph-related question. This may be a sign of weakness. Maths teachers should revise this topic well with their candidates.
   6. Candidates do not know the needed vocabulary for answering questions, especially in Social Studies and Integrated science. Teachers are advised to go out of their way to conduct topic-based dictation exercises for JHS three candidates to confirm this strange and worrying finding and to help their candidates. Failure of candidates to spell keywords in the various topics means they will not be able to write accurate answers with the right words.
   7. Some 2023 BECE candidates do not have a grip on basic factorization or simplification. This is worrying. When it comes to construction, pencil work is very poor. Mathematics and Pre-Tech Skills teachers should take this seriously.
   8. Social Studies teachers should teach their students how Social Studies Questions are answered for full marks using specific questions. For example, What should candidates write for questions as follows… State five benefits of vegetation to Ghana’s economy (10 marks). What is the Bond of 1844? (5 Mark) State 5 benefits of leisure. (8 marks)

The above are some identified general problems identified during the July 2023 BECE Home Mock in Our Chief Examiner’s Report Which Need To Be Worked On To Avoid Failure.

SOURCE: Ghana Education News

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