WAEC gives date to print 2024 BECE for school & private questions
Scheduled to be administered from Monday, July 8, 2024, and end on Monday, July 15, 2023, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it will soon commence printing of questions for the Basic Education Certificate Examination.
“The printing exercise will start very soon, and so we are on course,” Mr John Kapi, Head of Public Affairs of the not-for-profit-making organization (WAEC) said in an exclusive interview with the Daily Graphic newspaper.
He indicated that final-year junior high school (JHS) students in the country will write three new subjects in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to be conducted for School and Private Candidates at the same time.
The new subjects he said are Career Technology, Creative Art and Design, and Arabic adding that Career Technology and Creative Art and Design, culled from the previous Basic Design and Technology (BDT), will be written by all candidates.
The spokesperson of the West African Examinations Council responsible for the administration of the 2024 edition of the national examination, however, said Arabic will be an optional subject for candidates in Islamic basic schools.
Due to the introduction of the new subjects, the 2024 BECE will be taken in six days instead of the previous five days — Monday to Friday. The examination will start on Monday, July 8, 2024, and end the following Monday, July 15, 2024.
Commenting on the new subjects John Kapi told the Daily Graphic that since it was an examination that was solely Ghanaian, it was the government that determined what it wanted to be taught and what students examined in.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) spokesman said his outfit had just finished the registration of candidates and was now going to do the breakdown of candidates writing the various subjects.
The management of the organization, he said, was ready for the examination as all meetings related to it had been concluded, adding that sample questions had been sent to schools and posted on the council’s website.
Per the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School and Private Candidates timetable, prospective candidates will write English Language and Religious and Moral Education on Monday, July 8, 2024.
On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, candidates will write Science and Computing, which was previously Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), and then write Social Studies and Creative Art and Design on Wednesday.
The candidates will write Mathematics and Ghanaian Language on Thursday, July 11, 2024, while French and Career Technology will be written on Friday, July 12, 2024. Arabic will then be written on Monday, July 15, 2024.