All is set for the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which was postponed in June due to Pandemic COVID-19 from today, 14th to Friday 18th September 2020.
According to statistics available to the media, 269,419 of the candidates are males and 262,286, females.
In 2019, a total of 517,332 candidates from 16,871 schools wrote the Exams across the country while in 2018 a total of 509,824 final-year junior high schools (JHS) students were presented.
Candidates will write the English Language, Religious and Moral Education on Monday, Integrated Science, and Basic Design and Technology on Tuesday.
Information and Communication Technology, and French will be written on Wednesday with Mathematics, Ghanaian Language and Culture on Thursday, before ending with Social Studies on Friday.
An examination timetable issued to head teachers by WAEC confirmed that visually and hearing-impaired candidates would be given an extra one and half hour against the time allotted to other candidates.
The BECE is used by the GES to select qualified candidates for Senior High Schools and Technical Institutes across the country.
The results of the examination are based on Continuous Assessment and the external examination with the Continuous Assessment forming 30 percent whilst the external examination, 70 percent of the total assessment.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
