The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will not be cancelled with the move from the objective-based curriculum8 to the standard-based one.
It, therefore, debunked rumours being circulated that the BECE has been cancelled.
“Please do not communicate that we are no more writing BECE.”
The BECE is not cancelled, we are writing and even those who are in junior high school (JHS) 2 will also write ,” the Director-General of the GES, Dr Eric Nkansah, said in response to a comment from a member of the audience at a forum organised by the West African Examinations Council on the BECE Grading System in Accra last Thursday.
That member of the audience had suggested that the BECE would be cancelled.
As a result, a statement to that effect said, all last year’s JHS 2 students should progress to JHS 3 in order not to disadvantage any objective-based curriculum student in the BECE.
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The Head of National Office of WAEC, Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, urged the public to shed off any old ideas and thoughts that they might have about the BECE grading system.
She said the issue of the performance of candidates at the BECE had become very topical.
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“Indeed such untrue statements about marking schemes and grading mislead members of the public and create unnecessary anxiety among school authorities, candidates and their parents,” she said.
In a presentation, a former Head of the Test Administration Division of WAEC, Felix Akuffo-Badoo, said there was a need to revisit the BECE grading system for reimplementation.
Additionally, he recommended that training programmes be organised for teachers on continuous Assessment Scores.
Source: myghanadaily
