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WAEC To Set Different Questions For 2023 BECE Candidates? Here’s What We Know

Rexford Dede Baah-Nyarkoh 2 years ago

The 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination(BECE) is set to begin on Monday, 7th August, 2023 and end on Friday, 11th August, 2023.

All candidates are currently preparing for the exams. However, there are some rumours in town on whether WAEC will set different questions for the exams. This means, in the same examination hall, there may be two of three different set of questions. This is a way to curb examination malpractice among candidates.

What we know so far is that the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum gave a hint in the early part of the year about government’s plan to curb malpractices at the exams hall.

In an interview on TV3, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum revealed that his ministry has introduced a system known as the serialization which will make it impossible for students to cheat during exams.

He revealed that with the serialisation, candidates in the same examination hall will receive the same question but with different question numbers. Or students may get different questions all together in a single exams hall.

He said the serialisation, which was introduced in the 2021 BECE, would be intensified this year and advised candidates to study hard so they could do independent work in the examination hall.

“One thing that I am seriously and excited about is the fact that we have put an end to the perineal examination leakages that confronted BECE examination in this country. When the president charged me to find a way to end it, I went to work, we brought on board best practices from around the world called serialization”

“Two years ago in the BECE, different regions had different questions, even though it is the same level of difficulty. People who used to sell questions online saw that their market was gone. They pulled down their website. Just this past year, every examination center had different set of questions. In the coming examination, within the same examination room, students are going to have different questions. It will be a game changer” he said. .

2023 BECE 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.