The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School and Private Candidates is starting today, October 17, 2022 in 2,023 centres throughout the country.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) announced that a total number of 552,276 candidates from 18,501 schools are participating in this year’s exams.
Out of this figure, 276,988 are males and 275,288 are females.
In a statement, WAEC said “this year, two groups of BECE candidates (School and Private), will for the first time, take the examination at the same period. This is due to the consistently low entries for the BECE for Private Candidates over the years.”
“In respect of the BECE for Private Candidates (PC), 1,132 candidates made up of 634 males and 498 females entered for the examination. The examination will be taken at 15 selected centres, mainly in the regional capitals. The number of registered candidates for this year’s BECE (PC) is 6.09% higher than the 2021 figure of 1,067”, the statement added.
The Council cautioned candidates to be focused and be on the alert for the activities of “examination social media racketeers” whose primary aim is to make money through deception.
They also encouraged all examination officials to comply with the rules and regulations governing the conduct of the examination and refrain from being facilitators of malpractice.
WAEC took the opportunity to assure members of the public that all appropriate measures have been put in place to safeguard test security and ensure that the examination is conducted successfully including; printing of questions in compliance with the Council’s Security Regulations and inspection and fortification of storage Depots.
