In the Effia-Kwesimintsim Directorate of Education, 3,365 candidates are participating in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) with 99 public and private schools sitting at the Takoradi Technical University and Takoradi Secondary School exam centers.
When Citi News arrived at the Takoradi Technical University campus, where 76 exam centers have been created, some school teachers with their candidates were stranded in locating their exam centers with 3 minutes to the start of the Religious and Moral Education paper.
Speaking to Citi News on the conduct of the exams, the Effia-Kwesimintsim Director of Education, Catherine Biney, said the initial difficulties with candidates locating their centers are normal for the first day, but blamed the situation largely on the fact that Takoradi Technical University is still in session, hence the scattered centers on the campus.
“We have 7 centers, and 6 of them are at TTU, with the remaining one at TADISCO. For TTU alone, 76 schools are writing here, and 23 are writing at TADISCO. So far, the exam preparation is well organized, with materials distributed to the various centers. Being the first day, we will have problems with candidates looking for their centers, and that is what we are sorting out, but everything is set, and we are waiting for the papers to come.”
“There are centers to write the exams, but because school is in session for TTU, they just gave us premises that would cater for the number of candidates that are coming here, so the centers are scattered. You can’t have all of them in one place, so if you don’t know the terrain, you will have difficulty in locating a center, but the invigilators and supervisors will take them there and direct them as needed,” she said.