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General News of Monday, June 10, 2019
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
2019-06-10
Students across the country will start exams today
More than five hundred thousand basic level students are taking part in the basic education certification exam that begins nationwide today.
16,871 schools present students for exams that will last five days.
Of the 517,332 candidates for examination, 263,616 are men, while 153,716 are women.
Meanwhile, the West Africa Examination Council has banned supervisors from using cellular devices during exams.
According to WAEC, the ban had become necessary after the results of a research that had established that adults were the main culprits of exam abuse at all levels of education in the world. country.
In addition, no supervisor or supervisor would be authorized, under any circumstances, to supervise or supervise candidates from schools to which the supervisor or supervisor would be affiliated.
Ms Wendy E. Addy-Lamptey, Head of WAEC's National Office for Ghana, said that in normal circumstances a candidate would not try to seek "help?" Or an outside help to pbad the exam, whether it is the examination of the certificate of basic education (BECE) or the examination of the certificate of education. West African Secondary School (WASSCE).
"It's the adults who push these little kids to fall into the trap of exam-related neglect," she said.
She is also concerned that adults are overly involved in the examinations, which, she noted, is detrimental to the candidates' results.
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