{"id":129851,"date":"2015-06-30T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=129851"},"modified":"2015-06-30T06:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:06:54","slug":"resit-of-cancelled-bece-papers-ends-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=129851","title":{"rendered":"Resit of cancelled BECE papers ends today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The re-run of five cancelled papers of this year\u2019s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) across the country ends today [Tuesday].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-129533 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-3.jpg\" alt=\"BECE resit (3)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BECE-resit-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;iFVsO8QkBg2BWwIc5OrlzJYSrKmdBOtQ&#8221;]Over four thousand candidates from over thirteen thousand public and private basic schools are participating in the examination.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote English Language 2 on Monday and are expected to write two other subjects today.<\/p>\n<p>The Council in a bid to prevent a similar situation from occurring deployed the services of the Bureau of National Investigation to monitor the students during the examination.<\/p>\n<p>The West African Examination Council (WAEC)<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/17\/four-bece-papers-cancelled\/#sthash.taMMLGbk.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> cancelled about five papers<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>after it emerged that those papers had been \u201ccompromised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The subjects were English Language 2, Religious and Moral Education 2, Science 2, and Mathematics 2 and Social Studies 2.<\/p>\n<p>Some affected candidates who were dismayed by the development<span style=\"color: #666699;\"> <strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/19\/bece-candidates-threaten-to-boycott-resit\/\" target=\"_blank\">threatened a boycot<\/a><\/strong>t<\/span> while some parents of the candidates also<span style=\"color: #666699;\"> <strong>threatened to sue the Council.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The re-run of five cancelled papers of this year\u2019s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) across the country ends today [Tuesday]. 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