Adams Musah Tinaa
Private Basic Schools in the Wa Municipality are set to organize a Super Mock Examination for their final year students in order to adequately prepare them for the impending Basic Education Examination Certificate (BECE) scheduled for February 2026.
The initiative, according to the chairman of Private Schools in the Wa Municipality, Mumuni Suleman, is meant to improve students’ performance at the BECE level, which is the core mandate of private schools.
Mr. Mumuni emphasised the critical role private schools play when it comes to academic excellence, noting that the main aim of every proprietor and a parent is to see students pass examinations with excellence. This has, therefore, placed a daunting task on school proprietors to prepare students adequately to enable them excel in their examinations, he said. It is for this reason that proprietors of private schools within the Wa Municipality have initiated engagements to devise modalities, including organising mock examination, to improve student performance, he disclosed.
The chairman, who doubles as the properiator of Senior Victory College, added that the Super Mock Examination will involve all member schools as it seeks to test the readiness and understanding of both students and teachers on the BECE system. This, he said, is an attempt to alleviate the fear in students in such exams and also to afford teachers the opportunity to identify students’ weaknesses ahead of the final examinations.
The proprietor of Wa International, Allassan Umar, embraced the idea of conducting a Super Mock Examination. He said it will present all private schools a common platform to assess their students’ levels of strengths and weaknesses in relation to the final BECE and, thus, devise a workable strategy to improve their knowledge and performance.
He urged parents to support the initiative by paying the fee associated with the mock examination as that is very necessary for the successful conduct of the super mock examination.
The National Organizer for Private Schools and Director of Tender Care School, Samuel Dwomoh lauded the Ministry of Education’s interventions on concerns regarding private schools development. Mr Samuel Dwomoh appealed to the government to reduce some charges usually paid by private schools since both private and public schools are placed on an equal level.
To this end, he appealed for a reduction on the fees charged on private schools to register candidates for BECE, indicating that such a move will make it easy for parents to afford.
