Over Four thousand four hundred and fifty nine candidates are writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination at the Weija Gbawe Municipality.
Nineteen centres are going to be used for the exams according to the Municipal Education Directorate.
The Directorate says students have been prepared enough to ensured that they better last year’s results.
The exams commences on Monday August 7,2023.
The Municipal Directorate have been going round to motivate the students to give out their best ahead of the exams.
Henrietta Aseidu, Deputy Director in charge od Finance and Administration at the Weija Gbawe Education Directorate indicated that the directorate has done it’s best to ensure that the students give out their best.
“We have four thousand four hundred and fifty nine candidates made up of two thousand three hundred and ninty for the public schools and Two thousand one hundred and sixty nine for the public schools. Nineteen centres are going to be used in writing the exams while one hundred and sixty six invigilators and Nineteen supervisors will ensure the process is successful” the Deputy Director of Finance and Administration said.
“The Municipal Director of Education and his team have gone round the various schools in the Municipality to motivate the children to give out their best” Henrietta Aseidu said.
Additionally the Member of Parliament for Weija Gbawe who doubles as the Deputy Minister for Health Tina Naa Ayele Mensah has distributed mathematical set to students across the Municipality for both private and public school. This is a critical tool needed to write the exams.
According to the Member of Parliament this has been an occasional ritual and motives the children to give out their best ahead of the exams.
She expressed satisfaction with the fact that majority of the student writing the exams are girls adding that the girl population if often minimal during this time.
The Deputy Minister urged students to give out their best.
“We do this occasionally so it is not something new. But what we expect from the students is to give out their best during the exams and better the results of their predecessors”Tina Mensah said.
The Minister was of the assurance the that Science Based Senior High School in the Municipality will be ready for use by students when the results come in adding that this will augment the challenges faced by parents in securing for themselves a grade A school for their children.
Municipal Chief Executive for Weija Gbawe Patrick Kumor urged students to desist from taking foreign materials into the exams hall.
“We have encouraged them to give out their best and desist from taking foreign materials into the examination hall. They must instead revise their notes to ensure that the pass the exams. The mathematical set is to encourage them to do better and be independent during the exams”Municipal Chief Executive for Weija Gbawe Patrick Kumor said.
For students of the schools visited they are optimistic of giving out their best during the period.
“I am confident of performing better. It is just like the normal exams we write in school just that the venue has changed and that cannot change my prepartion” Jason Ankomah a student said.
Source :Calvis Tetteh