2023 BECE

The West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC) has cancelled the entire results of 42 candidates who sat for the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Out of this number, 41 are school candidates while 1 is a private candidate.

This follows the completion of WAEC’s investigations carried out into some cases of examination malpractice detected during the conduct of the examinations.

The results were cancelled for the offence of either bringing mobile phones into the examination hall.

Aside this, the subject results of 315 candidates have been cancelled for bringing foreign materials into the examination hall.

Below is the full statement from WAEC.

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“Following the completion of investigations into several cases of irregularity detected during the conduct of the examination and marking of scripts, the 34th Meeting of the Final Awards and Examiners’ Appointment Committee for BECE, held on Monday, 6th November, 2023 approved as follows:

1. Cancellation of Subject Results of 312 school candidates and 3 private candidates for bringing foreign materials, namely, prepared notes, text books and printed materials into the examination hall or colluding with other candidates;
2. Cancellation of Entire Results of 41 school candidates and 1 private candidate for possession of mobile phones in the examination hall;
3. Withholding of Subject Results of 180 school candidates and 4 private candidates for various suspected offences;
4. Withholding of Entire Results of 110 school candidates and 2 private Candidates for various suspected offences;

Meanwhile, the scripts of 22,270 candidates, in certain subjects are being scrutinized for reported cases of mass cheating. Their results may be cancelled or released basedon the outcome of investigations

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2023 BECE Results Released; Check Yours Here

How to Check 2023 BECE Results

To check your BECE results online, follow the steps below but make sure you already have a valid BECE result check. To get a valid BECE Result Checker, Click Here

Step 1: Log onto the WAEC result portal for BECE candidates at eresults.waecgh.org

Step 2: On the port, the first detail you enter is your INDEX NUMBER

Step 3: Enter your INDEX NUMBER again in the second space to confirm it as accurate.

Step 4: Select your exam type, which should be BECE (School) if you were registered for the exam by a private or public school or Select BECE (Private) if you were not registered for the exam by a school.

Step 5: Select your exam year. For 2023 candidates, your exam year is 2023.

Step 6: Enter the SERIAL NUMBER on the result checker scratch card. (Check well to avoid mistakes)

Step 7: Enter the PIN NUMBER on the result checker scratch card. (Check well to avoid mistakes)

Step 7: Think the box [   ] before the “I am not a robot”  ReCAPCHA

Step 8: Click Submit

Wait patiently for the result to load.

Once the result loads, you can print it or save it as a PDF file on your computer or mobile device.

The 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results have been released. All candidates can now check their results. You are encouraged follow these steps while checking your results.

READ ALSO: Reasons why GES cannot punish JHS1 and 2 students who wrote 2023 BECE

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#3. Choose the quantity you want to to buy eg. 1 or 2 under the How Many (- and+ ) button

#4. Click Add to bag

#5. Click Check Out

#6. Enter your name, email and phone number (Momo Number Only)

#7. Complete the payment with the code sent to your phone via text message

#8. You will be directed to our WhatsApp Chat

#9. Prove the email and phone number (Momo Number) use used to purchase

#10. We confirm and deliver the Result Checker via the same WhatsApp.

How to Check 2023 BECE Results

To check your BECE results online, follow the steps below but make sure you already have a valid BECE result check. To get a valid BECE Result Checker, Click Here

Step 1: Log onto the WAEC result portal for BECE candidates at eresults.waecgh.org

Step 2: On the port, the first detail you enter is your INDEX NUMBER

Step 3: Enter your INDEX NUMBER again in the second space to confirm it as accurate.

Step 4: Select your exam type, which should be BECE (School) if you were registered for the exam by a private or public school or Select BECE (Private) if you were not registered for the exam by a school.

Step 5: Select your exam year. For 2023 candidates, your exam year is 2023.

Step 6: Enter the SERIAL NUMBER on the result checker scratch card. (Check well to avoid mistakes)

Step 7: Enter the PIN NUMBER on the result checker scratch card. (Check well to avoid mistakes)

Step 7: Think the box [   ] before the “I am not a robot”  ReCAPCHA

Step 8: Click Submit

Wait patiently for the result to load.

Once the result loads, you can print it or save it as a PDF file on your computer or mobile device.

The Ghana Education Service in recent days has shown intent to punish JHS1 and 2 students who wrote 2023 BECE. The principle is that only JHS3 students can take the examination.

This intention to fish out JHS1 and 2 students who were absent from their respective schools during the BECE and subsequently punish them by not allowing them to enjoy the Free SHS is absolutely wrong. The plan should be shelved because there are verifiable reasons why this move will not work.

Verifiable Legal and ethical reasons why GES cannot punish JHS1 and 2 students who wrote 2023 BECE

Parents whose JHS1 and 2 students sat the BECE in 2023 will surely sue the Ghana Education Service and are likely to win these cases. Do not forget that education is a fundamental human right enshrined in the 1992 Constitution. Any attempt by the GES to prevent these students from accessing education will amount to an open disregard for the law and abuse of the fundamental rights of these children. These are the basics of the constitution, and since the GES has them in its Social Studies syllabus and teaches these students, it (GES) is expected to know better. Clearly, the GES cannot punish JHS1 and 2 students for writing the 2023 BECE.

The GES cannot, on any day, decide to deny these students access to education because of this. If anything at all, the heads of schools that registered such students should be those the GES should go after.

In our schools, students or learners in lower classes are often promoted or jumped to another class depending on their academic capabilities. For instance, some students in class five who are exceptionally brilliant are often promoted to JHS1 at the end of the third term instead of being promoted to basic 6. The same is done for JHS1 students who may be promoted to JHS2 or JHS3, depending on the discussions they had with their parents. Again, the GES cannot punish JHS1 and 2 students for writing the 2023 BECE.

Again, in our secondary schools, students in SHS2 often write the NOVDEC, which is a private WASSCE for students. They absent themselves during the examination to prepare for and write the examination. Very often, this is known to one or more teachers, who also encourage their good students to sit the WASSCE for private students. When such students excel, they have the option to complete the SHS as school candidates and write the WASSCE as school candidates, or they may apply for admission into a university, gain admission, and stop the usual SHS. This is another reason why GES cannot punish JHS1 and 2 students who wrote 2023 BECE.

The question the GES needs to answer is: do they punish these students or prevent them from progressing to the university? The answer is a big no.

All things held constant, the NSMQ is usually a preserve for final-year SHS students. However, some schools present SHS1 and SHS2 students for the competition because they are brilliant and have what it takes to compete. The newest reference in hand is the case of Stephen Baah of Opoku Ware SHS who is in SHS1 yet carried the school on his shoulders into the finals of the 2023 NSMQ.

We cannot deny the fact that, when JHS1 and JHS2 students are registered for the BECE, it has some negative implications. For instance, JHS1 and JHS2 students in private schools are very often those who are registered by public schools to sit the examination ahead of their colleagues. This is not to say that private schools do not register their JHS1 or JHS2 students. However, heads of private Junior High schools always lament about their JHS2 and even JHS3 students being secretly registered for the BECE by public basic schools, and the GES has always paid lip service to this. It only warns schools in a white paper and black ink press release on the act, and that ends it.

Apart from head teachers who register such students, the GES must take much of the blame and suffer punitive actions instead of innocent learners whose right to education it wants to violate.

The GES must, instead, dedicate time and effort towards improving basic education. The time to be used to investigate and do the so-called fishing out for JHS1 and JHS2 students who sat the 2023 BECE should be used to research the poor level of reading ability of public basic schools, solve the public school infrastructure deficit, and develop strategies to provide better conditions of service for our teachers. These will yield greater returns for education in general than going on a goose chase.

If a student in JHS1 or JHS2 is brilliant, they should be allowed to sit the BECE examination. Public schools should only register students of their school and not break the bounds of registering students in private schools whom these schools have invested so much time and effort to groom only for public schools to snatch as illegal Good Samaritans.

Parents whose wards are in private schools and in JHS1 or 2 but want them to sit the BECE earlier should also consult their schools instead of enrolling the students in public schools for the examination.

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The GES cannot punish JHS1 and 2 students for writing the 2023 BECE; instead, it should re-channel its energy and resources where they are needed.

Source: Educationblog.org