If you want to pass 2025 BECE Math read the 2023 BECE Chief Examiners report

Students preparing for the 2025 BECE Mathematics and Ghanaian teachers aiming to effectively prepare their learners for the upcoming examination must carefully examine the WAEC 2023 BECE Chief Examiners’ Report. This crucial report, released by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), serves as an important eye-opener, highlighting the common weaknesses and challenges encountered by candidates in the previous year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

This Ghana Education News post provides an in-depth analysis of the key issues raised in the WAEC Chief Examiners’ Report. We specifically address mathematics teachers in Ghana, urging them to provide targeted support to their students who are preparing for the 2025 BECE mathematics examination. By this time, mathematics educators should be actively identifying the specific learning challenges their students face. If these challenges align with the issues detailed by WAEC in their 2023 report, then every effort must be directed towards addressing these weaknesses comprehensively before the commencement of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). If you want to pass the 2025 BECE Math, read the 2023 BECE Chief Examiners report on Mathemtics.

MATHEMATICS GENERAL COMMENTS

The standard of the paper compared favourably with that of the previous year. The Chief Examiner stated that candidates’ performance declined as compared to that of the previous year.

2. SUMMARY OF CANDIDATES’ STRENGTHS
Candidates showed strengths in the following areas:
(a) solving problems on sets;
(b) simplifying fractions;
(c) expanding and simplifying algebraic expressions;
(d) solving problems on exponents;
(e) solving problems on rigid motion.

Candidates preparing for the BECE who can not deal with questions from these topics must work at them now.

3. SUMMARY OF CANDIDATES’ WEAKNESSES
Candidates’ weaknesses were found in the following areas:
(a) solving problems on distance and time related problems;
(b) translating word-problems to mathematical statements;
(c) drawing a pie chart;
(d) factorizing algebraic expressions.

These were the topics that gave learners the biggest headaches in the 2023 BECE. If candidates preparing for the BECE have issues with these same topics, teachers must work with their learners to cure this before the BECE.

4. SUGGESTED REMEDIES
(a) Candidates should be given adequate tuition and exercises in the areas listed under weaknesses.
(b) Candidates should be encouraged to read carefully and understand the demands of the questions before answering.

Most of the candidates who attempted this question handled part (a) very well. They listed the sets A and B correctly and also found the various intersections and unions of the given sets.

In part (b), most of the candidates were able to convert the mixed numbers to improper fractions and attempted to simplify but most of them did not apply the BODMAS concept correctly.

A reasonable number of candidates were able to find the relevant LCM for pairs of fractions which were grouped according to signs or otherwise. Simplification was then a major problem for many of the candidates who attempted this part of the question.

Candidates were expected to solve the question as follows:

2 hours to travel from Paamu to Quamu:

The parts (a) and (b) of the question were well attempted by most of the candidates. They were able to expand and simplify the expression correctly.

In part (c)(i), candidates were expected to find the distances from Akosua’s village to Quamu and the distance it would take a man to ride a bicycle from Akosua’s village to Quamu.

This part of the question was a challenge to most of the candidates and as a result, only a few candidates attempted it. Candidates were expected to solve the questions as follows:

Get the full BECE Mathematics report from this link  WAEC 2023 BECE Science Chief Examiner Report Out: Check how to use it to prepare for 2025 BECE and revise the topics well.