WAEC Releases Number Of Candidates To Write 2022 BECE, Ghana.

Ghana: Oct. 13, SIXSCRIBES – Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for 2022 is set to commence on Monday, October 17. According to WAEC, an overall number of 552, 276 candidates from 18,501 schools will sit to write this year’s certificate Examination.

In Accra, the West African Examination Council (WAEC) said on Thursday in a statement that the  examination would be run for both regular schools and private candidates at 2,023 centres across the country.

 “The entry figure is made up of 276,988 males and 275,288 females. The number of candidates that registered for this year’s BECE is 3.48 per cent less than the 2021 entry figure of 572,167. In respect of the BECE for Private Candidates (PC), 1,132 candidates made up of 634 males and 498 females entered the examination,” the statement read.

The private examination is set to be taken at 15 selected centres in the regional capitals. Comparatively, the number of registered private candidates for the 2022 BECE was 6.09 per cent higher than the 2021 figure of 1067. 

Meanwhile, candidates who have registered for the 2022 BECE as well as invigilators and other examination officials are advised to adhere to all examination protocols since the Council has put appropriate measures in place to safeguard test security and the successful conduct of the examination.

Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) is the required exams to qualify students for admission into senior high, technical and vocational institutions in Ghana.