The 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) starts on June 11th, 2025 and WAEC has cautioned candidates, schools, teachers and invigilators to obey the 2025 BECE rules from WAEC or face the consequences. The exam starts on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 and ends on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 will see a total number of 603,328 candidates, comprising 297,250 males and 306,078 females from 20,395 participating schools, entered for the school examination.

The number of candidates that registered for this year’s BECE (SC) is 5.99% higher than the 2024 entry figure of 569,236. With regard to the BECE for Private Candidates, a total entry figure of 1,661 candidates was recorded. This is made up of 858 males and 803 females. This year’s figure is 19.49% higher than the 2024 entry figure of 1,390.

The rules of the examination are clear, with the majority of them relating to all attempts by candidates, schools, teachers, invigilarors and other stakeholders attempting to cheat in the examination and the related punitive measures.

Candidates are required to make themselves conversant with the rules and not break them in any way to stay out of trouble.

No. 1: Schools and candidates are to ensure that they inform and remind their learners and teachers of the rules and the negative impacts of breaking them.

No. 2: Schools are required to circulate and explain the RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR DEALING WITH CASES OF IRREGULARITY IN THE COUNCIL’S EXAMINATIONS to all the candidates presented for the 2025 BECE examination.

No. 3: Heads of school and examination officials of WAEC are to ensure that the BECE for school candidates conducted in their schools is free from examination malpractice.

No. 4: Schools, teachers, invigilators, heads of schools and other stakeholders are to note that WAEC reserves the right to refer heads of Public School to the Ghana Education Service (GES) for disciplinary action and any other legal remedy available if the school is found to be involved in examination malpractice. Same will be applied when a private school is found to have engaged in any illegal examination acts.

No. 5: Heads of School, candidates and parents are to note that 2025 BECE candidates who are alleged to have been involved in examination malpractice shall have their entire results withheld by WAEC. Candidates will also be invited to a fair hearing as part of the investigation, and the relevant results will be cancelled if they are found culpable.

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Note that details of the candidates’ subjects, type of malpractice, date, and venue for a fair hearing will be posted on the WAEC website: www.waecgh.org.

No. 6: WAEC reserves the right to derecognize any Private or Public School as a BECE examination centre if found to have been involved in examination malpractice.

No. 7: The processes of dealing with examination malpractice will be done within seventy-five (75) days after the release of results.

In a related development, WAEC has reminded all stakeholders in its lastest press release for the 2025 BECE of the revised Rules and Regulations for dealing with cases of irregularity in the Council’s examinations, which have been in operation since 2023 The revision includes new rules on:

Having inscriptions on any part of the body or clothing
Posting Live Questions on the Internet
Refusal to grant timely access into the school premises
Misconduct of examination officials
Multiple registrations of candidates in both public and private schools

READ: Full 2025 BECE WAEC Press Release: Read Here

Parents, candidates and stakeholders can check the rules here. All stakeholders are to note that the revised rules are available on the Council’s website and Heads of school, supervisors and invigilators should ensure that candidates adhere to these new rules.

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR DEALING WITH CASES OF IRREGULARITY IN THE COUNCIL’S EXAMINATIONS.

The Council calls on all and sundry, especially stakeholders, to ensure that sanity prevails at all the examination centres. While we wish all the candidates success in their examination, we wish to admonish them to adhere strictly to the rules governing the examination. Any attempt to breach any of these will have dire consequences on the candidates.