Ms. Elizabeth Helen Essel, the Agona West Municipal Director of Education in the Central Region has encouraged candidates writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) to remain confident and approach the examination with determination to enable them come out with flying colours.
She advised the candidates saying: “Believe in yourself, do not panic, have confidence in whatever you have been taught and most importantly please do not attempt to cheat. Do your best and trust in God to see you through”.
The Municipal Director of Education gave the encouragement when she paid a working visit to schools in Abodom, Bobikuma, Kwaman and Nyakrom circuits in the Agona West Municipality, to sensitize and orient the final year students towards the forthcoming BECE.
She was accompanied by Mr Seth Boadi, with the Monitoring, Planning, Data Collection and Evaluation Unit of Ghana Education Service (GES), Agona West, Mr Benjamin Ohene Nyarko, the Basic Schools Coordinator of the Agona West Municipal Education Directorate, and Mr Christian Nyarkoh Yeboah, Culture and SHS Coordinator of GES, Agona West.
A total of 2,860 final year Junior High School students in the Agona West Municipality are writing this year’s BECE at 10 centres.
The exams are expected to start on Monday, June 10, to Friday, June 14, 2019.
The candidates are made up of 1,443 males and 1,417 females.
She counselled them against engaging in any form of examination malpractice.
Elizabeth Helen Essel also asked the candidates to avoid joining bad companies and aim high to achieve their dreams for the betterment of their future.
She took the candidates through the examination processes, and assistance on how to answer questions, filling of candidates particulars and the do’s and don’ts in the examination.
Ms. Essel assured the students that they would be taken through the core subjects by examiners before they sit for their final exams.
Mr. Kwamina Tandoh, a Public Relations Officer of the GES in the Agona West Municipality also in his remarks, called on students to concentrate on their books to pass their examination in order to make their schools, parents and loved ones proud as it was a stepping stone for the next phase of their lives.
He said: “for now students should do away with their mobile phones, watching television, playing games and focus on their studies to pass once and for all”.
Mr. Tandoh asked the candidates to concentrate on what they had been taught by their teachers and not to listen to friends or anyone who would approach them with fake or so-called leaked examination question.
The Education director is visiting other schools as part of efforts to sensitize all BECE candidates in the municipality ahead of the examination.
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By: Jonas Nyabor | citinewsroom.com | Ghana