2013 BECE ends
This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) ended yesterday after the candidates had written the Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) and French papers.
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More than 391,000 from 11,778 public and private basic schools sat for the examination.
The candidates, who were made up 209,381 males and 181,698 females, wrote the examination at 1,378 centres.
When the Daily Graphic visited some of the BECE centres in Accra, candidates were already jubilating even before the commencement of the final paper, Dominic Moses Awiah and Karl Ewusi-Brown report.
At the Accra High School Centre, where candidates of 10 schools wrote the examination, most of them were seen sitting in groups under trees discussing the previous papers while others were busily preparing for the ICT paper.
Other centres visited included the Osu Presbyterian School and the St Thomas Aquinas School.
One of the candidates from Ridge Church School, Ms Denise Somuah-Asamoah, expressed optimism of getting her first choice senior high school (SHS).
According to her, she prepared very well for the examination and that there was no way she would not pass to enter Wesley Girls’ High School in Cape Coast.
Vincent Amenuveve reports from Tamale that some candidates who sat this year's examination in the Tamale Metropolis were apprehensive about the Science and Mathematics subjects, describing them "as difficult subjects to handle in the exam".
They said all the other papers they wrote were "manageable."
The candidates were interacting with the Daily Graphic at the Tamale Senior High School that had three examination centres — A, B, and C.
During earlier visits to some of the examination centres in the metropolis candidates were found feverishly preparing for their last paper, ICT, with some of them engaged in group discussions.
According to the Tamale Metropolitan Director of Education, Mr. Abdul Rahman Saani, he had personally been monitoring the conduct of the BECE since it started last week.
He said throughout the examination period, he had not seen or heard of any examination malpractice among the candidates.
From Ho, Victor Kwawukume reports that indications from a good number of districts in the Volta Region seemed to show that this year’s examination had fewer challenges compared to the past ones.
At the end of the examination, students who wrote the French Paper rushed out rejoicing and raising their hands in victory.
Groups of BECE candidates from different JHSs jubilated after writing their last paper, reports Joseph Kyei Boateng from Kumasi.
Others took group photographs with their classmates.
Some of the candidates who spoke to the Daily Graphic said they were hopeful that they would come out with flying colours.
Both Kwadwo Debrah, 16 and Elizabeth Owusu-Ansah, 15, of the Saint Paul’s Roman Catholic Junior High School (JHS) said they were able to write the examination and, therefore, would pass well.