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BECE candidates can always re-write - WAEC
Accra, April 1, Ghanadot/GNA – Mrs. Ages
Teye-Cudjoe, Public Relations Manager at the West Africa
Examination Council (WAEC) on Tuesday said students who
failed the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)
could re-write examination in their former schools.
She noted that students always had the opportunity to
re-write the BECE but they had no option but to write all
the ten subjects.
“There has always been an avenue to re-sit the examination
only if the former school heads accept them.”
Mrs Teye-Cudjoe was speaking at a forum organized by the
Garrison Education Unit at Burma Camp, Accra for BECE
candidates who are preparing for the examination which
starts on April 21-25 this year.
About 340,000 students would be writing the examination
nationwide.
Mrs Teye-Cudjoe urged the students to desist from
examination malpractices and said students could have their
examination cancelled or could be barred from taking the
Council's examination not less than two years if they were
caught in any malpractice.
She said the BECE was like any other examination and urged
them not to panic but to learn think to recollect what they
had learnt since questions would not be outside the
syllabus.
"The examination is within your level; you can write the
exams and pass well. You can pass the examination without
cheating," she said Lieutenant Colonel Robert Adwini, Chief
Garrison Education Officer said the programme was part of a
series of programmes done to help students in the school in
their choice of subjects and prepare them well for the BECE.
"We always want to sensitize them on the dos and don'ts in
writing the BECE, since it is the first major exams that the
children are taking."
He advised the children to do their best to maintain the
standards set by their senior students who had made it to
the Senior High School.
The Reverend Jonathan Bettey, Guidance and Counselling
Coordinator of the Educational Unit, wished all Ghanaian
candidates in the examination success and asked them to
avoid any acts that would lead to the cancellation of their
papers.
GNA
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