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 2018 BECE:  Pregnant students failed to turn up in Kumasi

A pregnant student was among three absentees who did not take part in writing of the first paper in the 2018 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) on Monday, June 4, 2018, at the Kumasi Technical Senior High, in Kumasi.

Otec news’ reporters, Beauty Fremah and Mariam Seidu reported that 258 students were supposed to write the English Language and Moral and Religious Education (RME), but 253 were present.

In an interview with the Examination Coordinator for the centre, Emmanuel Amoateng, he said “those three absentees include a pregnant student, one is sick and the other one has traveled, according to reports from their school authorities.”

“Another problem we encountered was a student whose index number appeared twice, it caused a delay as we didn’t know which the right number was. We were able to solve it by cross-checking from the school list, apart from this there is no problem,” he added.

Candy Asare, who reported from Serwaa Nyarko Senior High School, said the students complained of not having the chance to utilize the full stipulated one hour forty-five minutes to write the English Language paper because of the delay of the start.

“Instead of starting the paper at 9:00 and ending at 10:45, we started at 9:30 and ended at 10:45, which to me doesn’t make sense. We could have ended at 11:15 if we are to go by the one hour forty-five minutes duration because the delay wasn’t the fault of ours,” one student complained bitterly.

Other centres Otec news visited were Opoku Ware School, Prempeh College, Asanteman Senior High School, Kumasi Academy, T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School, Osei Kyeretwie Senoir High School and Kumasi Anglican Senior High School, where examination were smoothly conducted.

The exams, which started on Monday June 4, with English language and Religious and Moral Education (RME), ends on Friday, June 8, 2018 with Social Studies.

In all 509,824 candidates are writing this year’s BECE at 1,772 centres across the country with 16,060 public and private basic schools and are made up of 263,295 males and 246,529 females.

Source: otecfmghana.com/Francis Appiah

 

 

 

 

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