Due to the 2023 Ghana WASSCE cancellation of about 35,000 students’ subject, an organization called the EduWatch has advised and cautioned Junior High School candidates who would sit for the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to avoid any malpractice at the exams hall.
Mr. Kofi Asare who is the Director of the EduWatch Organization, made a social media post advising parents to educate their children about the potential effects of indulging in examination malpractices, citing that it an make their results look bad.
“Over 32,000 students had one core subject result cancelled at WASSCE 2023 for exam fraud, a practice usually learnt from the basic level and perfected at secondary. As your wards prepare for BECE, talk to them about exam fraud & integrity,” he said in a post.
According to the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School and Private Candidates timetable, BECE candidates will write English Language and Religious and Moral Education on Monday, July 8, 2024.
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Then on July 9, 2024 which is a Tuesday, candidates will write Science and Computing, which was previously Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), and then write Social Studies and Creative Art and Design on Wednesday, 10th July, 2024.
On Thursday, not only the mathematics paper would be written but Ghanaian language as well.
Then French and Career Technology would be written on Friday, July 12, 2024.
Finally, Arabic BECE exams will then be written on Monday, July 15, 2024.
In other news, the Ministry of Education in Ghana is assuring the general public, particularly stakeholders such as parents, that the standard of the West African Senior School and Basic Education Certificate Examinations shall not be compromised for anything.
“We have made monumental progress, and over the past few years, WAEC has instituted several measures to curb exam malpractices during the BECE and WASSCE test administration,” the Education Ministry said in a statement.
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It implies that there would be a strict supervision measure by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to ensure the integrity of the BECE examination.
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“The Ministry of Education wishes to assure our students, parents, guardians, and the general public that the quality of education and examinations at all levels, including the WASSCE, was not and will not be compromised,” MoE said.
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