WAEC invite students for investigation over collusion in 2025 BECE
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has extended an invitation to some students who participated in the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), who are alleged to be involved in collusion for investigations.
In a blog post sighted by Pretertiary.com, the Examinations Council said the affected students are to report on the assigned dates and at the designated location indicated by their names on its official website.
With a total of 102 prospective students alleged to be involved in collusion, the Council said, “The invitation is to assist the Council to conclude its investigations into the alleged mass collusion.
Candidates are hereby informed that their refusal to honor this invitation shall not preclude the council from making a final determination on the cases,” the not-for-profit-making organization stated in the blog post.
A total of 603,328 candidates, comprising 297,250 males and 306,078 females, from nineteen thousand, five hundred and five (19,505) Junior High Schools (JHSs) entered for the school examination.
This includes seventy-two (72 ) candidates with visual impairment, two hundred and thirty-nine (239) with hearing impairment, and one hundred and sixty-one (161) candidates with other test accommodation needs.
The examination was conducted at two thousand, two hundred and thirty-seven (2,237 ) centres across the country. Out of the total number, two thousand, five hundred and twenty-six (2,526) candidates were absent.
The BECE for Private Candidates recorded a total entry figure of one thousand, three hundred and ninety (1,661) candidates. This was made up of eight hundred and fifty-eight (858) males and eight hundred and three (803 ) females.
Fifteen (15) centres, mostly in the regional capitals, were used for the BECE for Private Candidates. Out of the total number of candidates who entered for the examination, fifty-seven (57) were absent.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has cancelled the entire 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results of 177 students and withheld the results of over 2,000 others.
The not-for-profit organization claims the affected final-year Junior High School (JHS) students were involved in examination malpractices involving mobile phones and other unauthorized items.
In other news, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says about 95% of this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for school and private results were cancelled due to candidates using mobile phones in examination halls.
Head of Public Affairs at West African Examinations Council (WAEC), John Kapi, disclosed this while speaking on Accra-based Starr FM’s Morning Star with Naa Dedei Tettey on Monday, August 25, monitored by Pretertiary.com.
“At the end of this, the marking process, we cancelled 718 subject results, that is, for 718 candidates. Then we had 177 of them who had their entire results cancelled
We withheld 1,240 results of candidates, and then also the entire results of ninety-three candidates have withheld for further investigation. A number of schools have had, I mean, for the entire school, subject results have been cancelled for about 119 schools,” he said.
The spokesman for the not-for-profit organization explained that WAEC’s rules explicitly bar candidates from entering examination halls with mobile phones or other electronic devices capable of storing information.
