A Non-Governmental Organization ‘As I Grow’, (AIG) has expressed worry over the poor performance of students in the Basic Education Certificate Examination, BECE, in Akuapem North Municipality of the Eastern Region.
According to the NGO, the performance of Students in BECE continues to decline.
Available statistics indicate that a total of 1064 candidates representing 38.1% of 2708 Candidates who wrote the 2018 BECE examination failed.
The figure is a sharp increase from 472 candidates representing 17% of candidates who failed in 2017 out of a total number of 2602 candidates who wrote the exams. The failed students obtained aggregate 37 and above
In 2017, only 8 students obtained aggregate 6 whereas in 2018 only 3 students had aggregate 6 in the entire municipality. Sixteen (16} schools out of the total 97 scored 100% in 2017 whilst in 2018,17 schools out of 100 schools that participated in the BECE scored 100%.
These poor performances recorded over the years have informed NGOs to organize intensive classes for about 800 BECE Candidates in Larteh, Akropong, and Mamfe under its initiative dubbed “My Career Campaign Project”.
The classes assembled Examiners from WAEC who took the students through technicalities and methods of answering examination questions in subjects such as Mathematics, English, Integrated Science, Social Studies and ICT.
The Chief Executive Officer of the NGO is Debrah Bekoe told Mybrytfmonline.com “we glanced through the performance of Candidates in Akuapem North from 2015 to 2018 and we saw that performance of students keep declining. In 2018, when you pick Larteh, school which performed well was in the 30th position, others were in 60th position. For almost six years now, No candidate has scored aggregate 6. We noticed that most of the students do not know the technicalities in answering Examination questions aside their own weaknesses “
“So AIG decided to bring these examiners here to facilitate and take these candidates through so that they will be able to pass”
The General Project Supervisor of the NGO Mr. Daniel Owusu Koranteng, who doubles as the General Secretary of Maritime and Dockworkers Union who is an indigene of
Akropong-Akuapem admonished the students to stay away from social media and Television programs rather focus on their books to enable them to prepare well for the examination.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
