Girls and Boys sitting Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) September 2020
Compiled by Rita K. Foday
The Basic Education Certificate Examination (commonly known as BECE) is the exam that pupils are expected to pass in order to graduate from junior secondary school to be admitted to the senior secondary school in Sierra Leone. The exam is taken by those who have already done three years of secondary school studies.
Normally, this exam takes place around July but due to the covid-19, the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary School Education has scheduled it for 14th to 28th September this year.
The candidates taking this exam are required to follow the covid-19 precautions. The temperature of each student is checked before they are allowed into their respective examination halls; use of face masks while moving around, and social distancing is facilitated.
Certain schools with sufficient seating accommodation have been identified as examination centres. This means that candidates from particular schools are grouped at a particular centre.
I am including some pictures taken of candidates taking the exams at some of the centres in Bo and Lunsar (southern and northern Sierra Leone respectively).
Covid-19 weekly updates
Between September 14th and Sept 20th 2020 there are 57 new cases,
0 deaths
Accumulative confirmed cases – 2168
Active cases – 446
Death – 72.