Good News: No Common Core Exam For Private 2024 BECE Candidates

Are you registering for a 2024 private BECE? Did you fail the 2023 or earlier BECE? Take note that students who failed the 2023 BECE will not be examined with the 2024 BECE Common Core Curriculum. Hence registering as a private BECE candidates who sat the exam earlier will be the best for such candidates.

Private 2024 BECE candidates will not be examined with Common Core Curriculum

The good news is that all BECE candidates who failed the exam in 2023 and earlier and will retake it in 2024 will receive an examination based on the old curriculum rather than the common core curriculum. Parents who make the mistake of registering their candidates who failed the BECE in 2023 or earlier with a school will be harming their children who never studied the new curriculum.

This decision by the Ghana Education Service, the Ministry of Education, and the West African Examination Council is a step in the right direction.

Prior to the writing of the last official BECE based on the old curriculum, the GES issued a directive that no head teacher should repeat a student who was in JHS2 and was supposed to be in JHS3 to take the BECE in 2023 since such a repetition will affect the student who has been in schools based on the old curriculum.

Since some students received their education and preparation for the BECE from the old curriculum, WAEC will administer a separate examination question to all such candidates who register as private candidates.

Parents are to note that there is a difference between private candidates and private school candidates at the BECE level.

Any candidate registering for the BECE who failed the previous examination, either in 2023 or earlier, is considered a private candidate. It also includes a student who has been attending school at home but is taking the said examination.

While a student at home may take the examination based on the old or new curriculum, depending on which one he or she received schooling and preparation on in the last one or two years, all those who sat and failed one or more subjects administered under the old curriculum are advised to register and take the private BECE.

What this means is that students are preparing for a re-sit of the BECE.

1. Not be accessed with the new common core curriculum at the 2024 BECE.
2. They will also not be examined using practical or critical thinking questions.
3. Such candidates will use ICT, not computing.
4. They will write BDT and not Career Technology, Creative Arts, and Design.
5. These students must study and prepare using old text books and notes for the private BECE that WAEC will administer in July 2024.

What is the cost of registration for the 2024 private BECE?

According to WAEC, the 2024 private BECE registration will cost GH¢214. per student for seven to nice subjects.

The examination will be administered by WAEC concurrently with those written by the school students BECE; however, registration, which started on Monday, March 11, will be closed on Friday, April 19.