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WAEC to deploy 18,716 invigilators for 2020 BECE
531,705, candidates would write the 2020 BECE

WAEC to deploy 18,716 invigilators for 2020 BECE

The West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC) will deploy 18,716 invigilators to monitor candidates of  the 17,440 public and private schools which will be taking part in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).


A total of 2,007 examination centres would also be manned by 2,007 supervisors and 1,719 assistant supervisors.

This year’s BECE for school candidates should have been written from June 16 to 19, 2020 but had to be rescheduled due to the closure of schools on March 15, 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, the examination would now be written from September 14 to 18, 2020 following the reopening of schools for final-year Junior High School (JHS) students.

According to statistics made available to the Junior Graphic by the WAEC, 531,705, candidates would write the 2020 BECE for School Candidates.  They are made up of 269,419 males and 262,286 females.

The Ashanti Region would as usual, present the highest number of candidates; 106,857 (54,025 males and 52,832 females).

The Greater Accra Region follows with 94,443 candidates; 45,172 males and 49,271 females.

The Central Region would present the third highest number of candidates, 58,105 (29,467 males and 28,638 females), while the Western and Western North regions come fourth with 54,432 candidates; 28,059 males and 26,373 females.

A total of 49,993 candidates, made up of 25,749 males and 24,244 females would be writing the examination in the Eastern Region.

The others are the Bono, Ahafo and Bono East regions where 49,725 candidates (25,800 males and 23,923 females) would be sitting for the examination.

In the Volta and Oti regions, 38,192 candidates (20,015 males and18,177 females) would sit  the examination, while 43,500 candidates (23,375 males and 20,125 females) would take part in the BECE in the Northern, North East and Savanna regions, with 22,532 candidates (10,757 males and 11,775 females) participating in the Upper East Region and then 13,926 (7,000 males and 6,926 females) writing in the Upper West Region.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) declared its readiness to conduct this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), taking into consideration all the security measures and COVID-19 safety protocols.

“All the question papers have been produced under tight security, under the surveillance of the Ghana Police Service and WAEC security,” the Head of the National Office of WAEC, Mrs. Wendy E. Addy-Lamptey, said at a press conference, ahead of the examination, which starts today, Monday, September 14 to Friday, September 18, 2020.

Mrs. Addy-Lamptey appealed for support from stakeholders and the public to assist the council in its effort at safeguarding the integrity of its examinations.

She noted that the conduct of examinations was a shared responsibility, adding: “For instance, we rely on third parties and other individuals to provide services such as supervision, invigilation, and security.

Any activity engaged in by such individuals which goes contrary to the tenets of the examinations will undermine the integrity of the examinations and the certificates issued,” she explained.

She described examination malpractice as the worst form of fraud perpetrated, as it had negative effects on the development of the youth and the country.

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