The Minister of Education, David Sackey, has announced the 2023 BECE Results with 132,684 candidates from 1,730 schools entered for the 2023 BECE. 5,619 candidates were absent for all subjects. This leaves a total of 127,065 candidates as sitting at least one subject/paper.
However, the results of 1,889 candidates were withheld by WAEC due to late entry of 8 late school.. This leaves the results of 130,795 candidates (inclusive of those absent for all subjects) that were released to the MBSSE on 25 October 2023
During the BECE, candidates take up to eight subjects, and the best score is 1 (Excellent) and the worst is 7 (Fail). Units/Grades 1 to 6 are various levels of passes. Thus, anyone scoring 6 or better will pass an individual BECE subject. The different grades are awarded based on the percentage of marks obtained on an individual exam.
Individual student performance is assessed using aggregate scores derived from the grades for a total of six subjects – the four (4) ‘core subjects’ plus the best ‘elective subject’ grade and the best ‘optional subject’ grade. The ‘average grade’ which is the sum of the grades obtained for all subjects attempted, divided by the number of subjects attempted, is also used to assess performance. The latter is a better measure of the quality of the performance of candidates. As an example of how average grades are computed – If a student sat 8 subjects and obtained four 1s, two 2s, one 3, and one 4 his/her average grade is computed.
It is important to underscore that the smaller the average grade/unit, the better the student performed. Students are aiming to get an average unit/grade score as close to 1.0 as possible.
Different senior schools have different entry requirements as a consequence of the fact that they have different numbers of places.
