Education

Here’s Why This Year’s BECE Will Be Written Before All WASSCE “Written” Papers

Rexford Dede Baah-Nyarkoh 2 years ago

Basic Schools To Reopen On 3rd October, 2023

For the past years, WASSCE is always written before the Basic Education Certificate Examinations. This year’s timetable from WAEC shows some changes in this norm.

This year’s BECE will be written before the 2023 WASSCE. There will some projects work for some WASSCE candidates when the WASSCE date is due. After this, BECE will commence. No “written” WASSCE paper will be written before the BECE. This means that the 2023 BECE will be written during the 2023 WASSCE period?

According to the 2023 BECE timetable, the first paper will be written on Monday, 7th August, 2023. and the last paper will be written on Friday 11th August, 2023.

The 2023 WASSCE, on the other hand will begin on Monday, 31st July, 2023. The exams will continue through to 29th September, 2023. This clearly shows that the 2023 BECE will be written during the 2023 WASSCE period.

For this reason, there will be a one week break for all WASSCE candidates during that period. There will only be one practical work on Monday, 7th August, 2023(Food and Nutrition Paper 3). Aside this paper, WASSCE candidates will resume their exams on Monday, 14th August, 2023.

This year’s BECE will be written early as compared to other years. Also, the 2023 academic calendar for both basic schools and SHS has been designed in such a way that this year’s academic year will end on 15th September, 2023.

August and September used to be the original date of vacation for basic schools and SHS before the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020. Following the outbreak of this pandemic, the academic calendar for all schools, including tertiary institutions changed. The Ghana Education Service is doing everything possible to restore the old academic calendar

Below is the final Timetable of the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examinations

FINAL TIMETABLE

DATE	SUBJECT CODE	SUBJECT/PAPER	DURATION	TIME
Monday, 7^th August, 2023	022/2	Religious and Moral Education 2 (Essay)	1 hour	9.00 a.m. -10.00 a.m.
	022/1	Religious and Moral Education 1 (Objective)	45 minutes	10.00 a.m. – 10.45 a.m.
	001/2	English Language 2 (Essay)	1 hour 10 minutes	1.00 p.m. – 2.10 p.m.
	001/1	English Language 1 (Objective)	35 minutes	2.10 p.m. – 2.45 p.m.
Tuesday, 8^th August, 2023	033/2	Integrated Science 2 (Essay)	1 hour 15 minutes	9.00 a.m. – 10.15 a.m.
	033/1	Integrated Science 1 (Objective)	45 minutes	10.15 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.
	003/2-013/2	Ghanaian Language and Culture 2 (Essay)	1 hour	1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
	003/1-013/1		45 minutes	2.00 p.m. – 2.45 p.m.
Wednesday, 9^th August, 2023	020/2	Social Studies 2 (Essay)	1 hour	9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.
	020/1	Social Studies 1 (Objective)	45 minutes	10.00 a.m. – 10.45 a.m.
	053/2-055/2	Basic Design and Technology 2 (Essay)	1 hour 15 minutes	1.00 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.
	053/1-055/1	Basic Design and Technology 1 (Objective)	40 minutes	2.15 p.m. – 2.55 p.m.
Thursday, 10^th August, 2023	030/2	Mathematics 2 (Essay)	1 hour	9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.
	030/1	Mathematics 1 (Objective)	1 hour	10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.
	070/2	Information and Communication Technology 2 (Essay)	1 hour 15 minutes	1.00 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.
	070/1	Information and Communication Technology 1 (Objective)	45 minutes	2.15 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Friday, 11^th August, 2023	002/2	French 2 (Essay)	45 minutes	9.00 a.m. – 9.45 a.m.
Friday, 11^th August, 2023	002/1	French 1 (Objective)	1 hour	9.45 a.m. – 10.45 a.m.