GES issues new directives for 2023 BECE school & private conduct

The Ghana Education Service (GES) ahead of the conduct of the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has issued new directives to final-year Junior High School students to partake in the national examination this year.

In a release copied to AcademicWeek, the Service said the directives form part of the Education Directorates’ effort to ensure free, fair and transparent conduct of the 2023 edition of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)

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“As part of an effort to ensure free, fair and transparent conduct of 2023 BECE all headteachers of public and private schools, proprietors and directors of schools are hereby directed to observe the following rules and regulations governing the conduct of this year’s BECE,” the Ghana Education Service (GES) said in the press release.

GES new directives to 2023 BECE private, school candidates

1. Candidates are to come to the examination centre with ONLY Flat Open Sandals, without socks.

2. Candidates must be seated in the examination hall thirty minutes before time.

3. Candidates who arrive after the supervisor has given the order to start work will be deemed to have arrived late, and not permitted to write the paper.

4. Supervisors and Invigilators are authorized to thoroughly search all candidates including their private parts before they are allowed to enter the examination hall. They are also permitted to search candidates wearing head coverings including veils.

5. Candidates are advised to ensure that no foreign materials are under their desks since they will be held liable if found.

6. Candidates are advised to use only index numbers provided by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

7. Candidates whose examination results have been cancelled for resorting to dishonest means. may be refused re-entry to future examinations.

8. Candidates should not come to the examination hall with mobile phones, earphones, wrist watch or any electronic devices.

9. Candidates are only allowed to use transparent blue pens.

10. All headteachers, teachers and unauthorised personnel would not be allowed within the premises of the examination centres.

11. According to WAEC Law, Act 719 (2006) it is a criminal offence punishable by law to engage in any form of examination malpractice.

More than 600,000 candidates according to a spokesperson for the non-profit-making organization (WAEC), Agnes Teye Cudjoe will sit for the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) slated August 7 to August 11, 2023