BECE 2025 starts today
…603,328 candidates to partake
The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for 2025 starts today, with a total 603,328 candidates expected to take part – representing a 5.99 percent increase from the 2024 figure of 569,236.
The Ghana Education Service (GES), announcing this figure ahead of the nationwide exams, said this cohort comprises 297,250 males and 306,078 females from both public and private schools.
The BECE organising body, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), has indicated that the exams will take place from June 11th to June 18th, 2025 across the various centres nationwide.
The BECE for school candidates will take place across 2,237 centres nationwide while the exam for private candidates will be conducted at 15 centres, mostly located in regional capitals.
Private candidates’ participation has also increased significantly, from 1,390 in 2024 to 1,661 registered this year. Of these, 858 are males while 803 are females.
WAEC has assured parents that reasonable adjustments have been made to accommodate candidates with special educational needs, promising guardians and school heads that no child will be left behind.
Director-General of the GES, Prof. Ernest Kofi Davis, cautioned candidates to refrain from cheating and warned invigilators and supervisors to uphold strict professionalism or risk dismissal.
“We need the cooperation of all stakeholders to ensure that examination malpractice of all forms is reduced to the barest minimum or eliminated, because examination malpractice does not have a system to accurately measure the performance of students.
“Once students are cheating their way through, it is difficult to ascertain how well our education system is performing. So, we are appealing for all to support us in fighting examination malpractices. Invigilators who are caught aiding examination malpractice will be severely punished,” he cautioned.
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