Allow candidates to do independent work - WAEC Head to supervisors, invigilators
The Head of the Ghana National Office (HNO) of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Dr Rosemond Wilson, has toured some Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) centres in Accra, calling on supervisors and invigilators to allow the candidates to do independent work.
She said once the candidates had been prepared for the examination, they would pass.
Dr Wilson said this after the tour of the St Francis Xavier Basic School and the Accra Girls Senior High School centres last Wednesday.
Examination
On Wednesday, the candidates wrote Science and Career Technology.
The examination began last Monday, May 4, 2026, with English Language and Religious and Moral Education.
On Tuesday, they wrote Social Studies and Creative Arts and Design.
On Thursday, they wrote Mathematics and Ghanaian Language and are scheduled to write French and Computing today.
The BECE officially ends on Monday, May 11, 2026, with Arabic.
At the Accra Girls SHS Centre, four candidates were said to have been involved in examination malpractice.
Dr Wilson confirmed the incident and indicated that two of them were twins who had exchanged their answer booklets, with the elderly one answering the questions for the younger one.
She said the matter would be thoroughly investigated, and if they were found culpable, the subject paper would be cancelled.
Dr Wilson said the candidates were made to fill out the irregularity form.
The other two candidates, she said, had also exchanged their answer booklets.
The WAEC HNO was accompanied by other officers, including the Head of Public Affairs, John Kapi.
2026 exam
A total of 619,985 final-year junior high school (JHS) candidates are writing this year’s BECE for School Candidates (SC) across the country.
Up to 156 other candidates from Togo and Benin will also take the examination, which will end on Monday, May 11, 2026.
This brings the total number of candidates for the 2026 examination to 620,141, according to statistics made available by the WAEC to the Daily Graphic.
Five schools from Togo and Benin participating in the examination will take the examination at one centre.
WAEC said the Togo and Benin schools writing the BECE in Ghana “run our curriculum, and so they are eligible to write”.
