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BECE takes off Monday

This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) begins on Monday, June 16 with 422,946 final-year junior high school (JHS) students writing the examination.

The figure represents an increase of 31,864 over last year’s total number of 391,082.

The 2014 BECE candidates, who are from 12,562 public and private schools, are made up of 223,765 males and 199,181 females. 

They are expected to write the examination at 1,437 centres across the country. 

Two papers will be written every day from June 16 to 20, 2014, with the English Language and Religious and Moral Education papers being written on the first day of the examination. 

Breakdown of candidates

According to statistics made available to the Daily Graphic by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), 391,730 candidates will write the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) paper, while 171,274 candidates will write the French paper.

The Ashanti Region is presenting 83,859 candidates, the highest this year, followed by the Greater Accra Region with 74,139 candidates, while the Central Region comes third with 43,921 candidates.

The Northern Region has the fourth highest number of candidates of 43,694, with the Western Region presenting 41,991 candidates, while 41,522 candidates will write the examination in the Eastern Region.

In the Brong Ahafo Region, 39,573 candidates are expected to write the examination; 31,866 in the Volta Region and 19,009 in the Upper East Region.

The Upper West Region has the least number of 12,372 candidates writing the examination.

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