A total of 570,461 candidates are expected to sit for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), scheduled to begin on Monday July 8, 2024.
The total number comprises of 569,095 school candidates made up of 282,648 males and 386,447 females while 1,366 candidates comprising 735 males and 631 females representing private candidates.
At a press briefing in Accra, the head of public affairs at WAEC, John K. Kapi, disclosed that the candidates were from 19,506 schools and would take the examination at 2,123 centres across the country.
He further noted that, 2,123 supervisors, 1,889 assistant supervisors and 19,973 invigilators had been engaged to ensure a seamless conduct of the examination.
Giving details on how candidates would be examined, Mr. Kapi mentioned that, “school candidates will be examined based on the newly introduced Common Core Curriculum, while private candidates will be examined on the old syllabus.”
On malpractices, Mr Kapi also cautioned stakeholders, including students, parents, teachers, invigilators and supervisors, to strictly adhere to the rules and regulations for the conduct of the examination.
“Proprietors of schools, parents, head teachers, teachers and all other persons not involved in the conduct of the examination are not allowed at the centres,” he said.
He stressed that while parents must ensure that their wards did not send mobile phones and other foreign materials to the examination centres, invigilators, teachers and supervisors should not create any room for cheating and other malfeasance.
He therefore urged candidates to be wary of the activities of rogue website operators whose primary aim was to circulate fake questions and lure them into subscribing to those questions.
The examination would begin with English Language on Monday, July 8, and end with Arabic on Monday, July 15.
