Next BECE Slated For July
The 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will be held in July unlike in previous years where it was delayed.
It comes as the academic calendar for the 2023/2024 year has reverted to its previous form.
The calendar as released shows the exam will be held a month earlier than this year’s. The 2023 exam was held in August while the 2022 edition took place in October, November in 2021 and in September in 2020.
The delay was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Calendar
The Ghana Education Service (GES) in its released Calendar for Kindergarten (KG), Primary and Junior High School (JHS) students indicates the current term will span for 12 weeks, the second for 14 weeks and the third for 13 weeks.
The current term will end on December 23 with a vacation from December 24 to January 8.
The second term will start on January 9 and end on April 11. A vacation will transcend from then to April 29, 2023.
The last term will commence on April 30 for all JHS, Primary and KG students. It will however end in July for final-year students while the rest will end the academic year on July 25, 2024.
Calendar Reset
Following the disruption in the global academic calendar in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the GES was compelled to start the academic year in January and end in December instead of September to July.
Last year, the Service introduced a transitional calendar to enable it to revert to the pre-COVID era timeline. By that, basic schools this year went through three full terms plus one term of the current academic year all within this year making four terms from January to December 2023.
The first term began from January to March 2023 and was followed by the second term which began in April and ended in June 2023. The last term for the academic year spanned from July to September.
In September, the Service announced a reset to the pre-pandemic calendar. As a result, the term began on October 3, 2023.
