By Prince Acquah
Ajumako (C/R), May 26, GNA – The Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District Education Office has announced the district’s preparedness for the upcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), indicating that all necessary measures are in place for a successful exercise.
A total of 2,836 students from 110 schools, including 19 private schools, have been registered to partake in the examination across nine designated centres.
This year’s BECE has been scheduled for Wednesday, June 11 to Wednesday, June 18.
Mrs Sabina Aba Wilson, the District Education Director, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), outlined steps taken to ensure candidates wrote and passed the exams successfully in the safest and most conducive environment.
As part of the preparations, three WAEC-standard mock examinations had been conducted for candidates and the scripts marked and discussed with all stakeholders to chart the way forward.
Mrs Wilson said her office, with the support of BECE examiners in the district, had also conducted a session on how to answer questions for the candidates.
Additionally, WAEC officials had conducted a workshop on examination procedures and conducts for the candidates, she added.
Mrs Wilson assured that all BECE centres in the district had been assessed to ensure that rains, excessive sunshine and other natural phenomena did not affect the conduct of the examinations.
“All learners are receiving specialised support. Schools that lack teachers for specific subjects have been supported through the borrowing of teachers from other schools to augment the staff.
“We have held a programme with parents and their wards where parents were educated to support their wards by reducing workload on the candidates and play whatever roles they could to support the candidates,” she added.
The only thing left was the training of invigilators, which she said would be done the week preceding the examination.
The District Education Director was quick to warn that acts of examination malpractices would not be countenanced, stressing that defaulting candidates would not be spared.
Allaying the fears of candidates, she said the environment would be as friendly as the questions and urged them to work harder to gain admission to their dream schools.
GNA
Edited by Alice Tettey and Lydia Kukua Asamoah