GES restores conduct of BECE back to ‘pre-Covid-19’ June calendar

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has restored the conduct of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School to the traditional June calendar after it was disrupted by the outbreak of coronavirus in 2020.
In a letter addressed to all Regional Directors of Education, GES stated that the BECE for school candidates will take place from June 9 to 16, 2025, while the WASSCE for school candidates will run from August 4 to September 19, 2025.
In 2020, the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School was earlier slated for June 16 to 19, 2020 but had to be rescheduled due to the closure of schools on March 15, 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Statistics released by the West African Examinations Council indicated that a total of 531,705 final-year Junior High School (JHS) students representing 269,419 boys and 262,286 girls participated in the national examination.
The Ashanti Region would, as usual, present the highest number of candidates; 106,857 (54,025 males and 52,832 females).
The Greater Accra Region follows with 94,443 candidates; 45,172 males and 49,271 females.
The Central Region would present the third highest number of candidates, 58,105 (29,467 males and 28,638 females), while the Western and Western North regions come fourth with 54,432 candidates; 28,059 males and 26,373 females.
A total of 49,993 prospective candidates, made up of 25,749 males and 24,244 females wrote the examination in the Eastern Region.
The others are the Bono, Ahafo and Bono East regions where 49,725 candidates (25,800 males and 23,923 females) sat for the 2020 edition of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for School
In the Volta and Oti regions, 38,192 candidates (20,015 males and18,177 females) partook the examination, while 43,500 candidates (23,375 males and 20,125 females) took part in the BECE in the Northern.
North East and Savanna regions, with 22,532 candidates (10,757 males and 11,775 females) participated in the Upper East Region and then 13,926 (7,000 males and 6,926 females) in the Upper West Region.