By Naa Shormei Odonkor
Kumasi, June 3, GNA – A total of 120,285 pupils are sitting for this year’s Besic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Ashanti Region.
Dr William Kwame Amankra Appiah, the Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES) who disclosed this, said the candidates comprising 60, 286 females and 59,999 males, would be writing at 432 centres.
He was speaking at a school selection process workshop for directors, public relation officers, examination officers and counselling coordinators in the Ashanti Region.
The workshop, held in Kumasi was organized by the GES in collaboration with the Ghana Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Service.
Participants were guided through the updated senior high school selection process, including the number of schools candidates can choose from each category.
The goal was to equip them with the requisite knowledge to educate and sensitise parents and students at the local level to make the right choices in the SHS selection process.
Currently, only seven schools can be selected by candidates instead of the previous 11.
Dr Appiah said the number of expected candidates to sit for the 2025 BECE has increased by 9,543 candidates translating to an 8.6 per cent increment.
He stated that with one invigilator supervising 30 candidates, 4,009 invigilators would be deployed for the national exercise.
He advised students to resist the temptation of smuggling foreign materials into the examination halls, saying that any form of examination malpractices would not be countenanced.
He encouraged the candidates to stay focused and give their best effort in the examination to secure admission into their preferred senior high schools.
The 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination is slated for June 11, 2025, to June 16, 2025.
GNA
Edited by Yussif Ibrahim