The Ghana Education Service (GES) has revised the date for the writing of this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School Candidates.
It says the examination would be written from June 10 to 14, 2019 instead of the previously announced date of June 3 to 7.
This was contained in a letter signed by the Director General of the GES, Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, and copied to the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh and other personalities, including district and regional directors of education.
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Management
It stated further that “You are by this letter directed to communicate this information to all heads of basic schools and prepare the students for the examination accordingly”.
The BECE is used by the GES to select qualified candidates for senior high schools (SHSs) and Technical Institutes (TIs) across the country.
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Private BECE
The examination would be written by 2,505 candidates, comprising 1,553 males and 952 females.
The Greater Accra Region is presenting the highest number of candidates of 689, 416 males and 273 females.
Others
The rest are the Upper East Region, 114 candidates; 68 males and 46 females; Brong Ahafo Region, 73 candidates, 36 males and 37 females, as well as the Northern Region, 47 candidates, 34 males and 13 females.
In 2015, 1,181 candidates sat for the maiden examination while 1,418 candidates wrote in 2016, with 1,379 writing in 2017.
