One of the most significant tests in the West African area, the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), was just a few days ago given its results by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). The outcomes of this test are a crucial barometer of the region’s educational system and have a significant impact on the futures of the students who take it.
The results of the 2022 BECE are typically outstanding, and the students who took the exam are receiving expressions of appreciation for their diligence and hard work one after another. For the BECE in 2022, several students have inquired as to whether it is feasible to enhance their scores.
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ABOUT BECE
Results upgrade: what is it?
Results upgrade: Is it true?
How to enhance your BECE performance
1. Writing new BECE tests
2. Requesting comments or reviews
What is the BECE passing score?
ABOUT BECE
A standardized exam called the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) is used to assess the academic quality of pupils’ primary and junior high school education. Additionally, it is employed in Ghana to evaluate kids’ academic readiness for senior high school. The placement of a student in the senior high school is based on the exam results.
Results upgrade: what is it?
In Ghana, when BECE results are issued, you generally notice numerous outlets promoting about results upgrading. What this means is, paying money to an unknown individual to enhance your grades (ex. Upgrading from Grade C-6 to A-1 primarily in key courses such as mathematics, Integrated Science, etc.
Results upgrade: Is it true?
BECE results upgrading is bogus. It is never real. There is no way to amend your BECE results once they have been graded. When you feel your results have been altered after grading, you can request for review for your results to be examined and even for that, it is a 50/50 request since it can be either accepted or not.
To achieve it, you also need to go through a stern process. Students should, therefore, put in as much time as possible before taking the BECE to secure the maximum potential result.
How to enhance your BECE performance.
Results upgrading marketed on many social media sites that guarantee you of immediate boost in your marks are all fraud. However, if you believe you don’t deserve the outcomes offered to you, there are different approaches to follow to achieve some decent results.
1. Writing new BECE tests
Rewriting BECE again is doable. There are various private institutions who provide remedial sessions and registers students for BECE examinations. You can also attend JHS again from JHS 3 after accessing yourself and understanding you are fully fit for another round.
BECE private examinations is also accessible to write. Prepare yourself, write the examinations again and obtain yourself high results to replace the terrible one you previously received.
2. Requesting comments or reviews
If you feel you wrote the tests successfully but obtained an unworthy grade, you can apply for a review or commenting through the institution you wrote the examinations at. Contact the school headteacher, explain your appeal and he/she will lead you to make appeal for remarking to WAEC.
What is the BECE passing score?
Per the new structure put in place by the Ghana Education Service, there is no cut-off point for BECE. Previously, it was an aggregate of 25. Although the results provided each year are rated from 1 to 9 per topic, the school placement is done using the candidate’s raw score.
Last words
WAEC routinely publishes cautions to parents and candidates to be aware of fraudsters who, for a charge, claim they can enhance outcomes. Candidates should realize that their WAEC scores are safeguarded and verifiable. It is not feasible to improve BECE results, all adverts offering to enhance BECE results are bogus or phony.
