A total of 1,132 candidates made up of 634 males and 498 females from private candidates are expected to write 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Across the Country, a total of 552, 276 candidates from 18,501 public and private schools will from today, Monday, October 17, start this Examination.
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) said this year’s examination would be run for both school and private candidates at 2,023 centres throughout the country.
The statement said, “the entry figure is made up of 276,988 males and 275,288 females. The number of candidates that registered for this year’s BECE is 3.48 per cent less than the 2021 entry figure of 572,167.
According to the statement, the examination would be taken at 15 selected centres in the regional capitals.
It said the number of registered candidates for the 2022 BECE was 6.09 per cent higher than the 2021 figure of 1067.
In 2021, a total number of 571, 894 candidates sat for the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) compare to 531,707 and 517,332 candidates who sat for the examination in 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Source; Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
