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Ghana Education Service Outlines New Dates For 2024 BECE And WASSCE After Revision
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Ghana Education Service Outlines New Dates For 2024 BECE And WASSCE After Revision

by  Delali Adogla-Bessa 2 min read
  • The 2024 WASSCE for school candidates will now be written from August 5, to September 27, 2024
  • The 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) is scheduled for July 8, to July 12, 2024
  • The Ghana Education Service released a circular to district heads of education outlining the new dates

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The 2024 WASSCE for school candidates will now be written from August 5, to September 27, 2024.

Similarly, the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) is scheduled for July 8, to July 12, 2024.

New WASSCE and BECE dates
The new dates were communicated to regional education directors in a circular. Source: Ministry of Education GH
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Graphic Online confirmed these changes from the Ghana Education Service.

The new timetable for the WASSCE is an update on the previously announced schedule of July 1 to August 31, 2024.

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The new WASSCE dates were communicated to regional education directors in a circular dated March 12, 2024.

The circular urged regional directors of education to communicate the information to all heads of schools.

John Kapi, the Head of Public Affairs of the West African Examinations Council, also confirmed the change and said the country would continue with the Ghana Only Version of the WASSCE for student candidates.

The Ghana Education Service recently released the list of approved subjects for the upcoming BECE.

The service outlined subject choices under mandatory, elective and optional categories.

The mandatory subjects are English Language, Mathematics, General Science, Social Studies, Religious and Moral Education, Career Technology and Creative Arts and Design.

Ghanaian languages are classified as elective subjects, while French, Arabic, and English are optional subjects.

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Such persons include female candidates at home because of childbirth despite passing the examination.

Six hundred thousand nine hundred candidates, comprising 300,404 males and 300,496 females, sat for the 2023 BECE.

Some candidates who were not placed were suspected of cheating during the exam.

WAEC said some scripts of 22,270 candidates were withheld over reported cases of mass cheating.

According to WAEC, these results may be cancelled or released based on the outcome of investigations.

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Delali Adogla-Bessa (Current Affairs Editor) Delali Adogla-Bessa is a Current Affairs Editor with YEN.com.gh. Delali previously worked as a freelance journalist in Ghana and has over seven years of experience in media, primarily with Citi FM, Equal Times, Ubuntu Times. Delali also volunteers with the Ghana Institute of Language Literacy and Bible Translation, where he documents efforts to preserve local languages. He graduated from the University of Ghana in 2014 with a BA in Information Studies. Email: delali.adogla-bessa@yen.com.gh.

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