10 reasons why more 2024 BECE/WASSCE candidates can easily fail

While not all students will pass the BECE or WASSCE, there are 10 reasons why more 2024 BECE and WASSCE candidates can easily fail their final examinations.

By the time you finish reading this blog post for West African students taking the WAEC exam, you need to start doing things correctly.

All students preparing for the 2024 final exam at the JHS and SHS levels for the BECE and WASSCE must wake up and be serious if they want to pass the examination.

While candidates in Ghana can pass the BECE and WASSCE examinations, as can all candidates taking similar examinations in the five West African countries that administer WAEC examinations, students must be well-prepared academically, emotionally, and mentally to pass the examination.

Apart from students preparing for the WAEC-administered examination by studying the relevant materials, they also need to master the skills of time management before and during the examination.

Again, students preparing for the BECE and WASSCE must acquire the right question-answering skills to be able to provide the needed answers in the manner required by the examiner.

The 10 reasons why more 2024 BECE and WASSCE candidates can easily fail are listed below.

I have seen students pass their WASSCE and BECE with amazing grades by doing the right things and avoiding the mistakes discussed here. You too can break through the ceiling and pass the exam.

Very often, students fail their final examination due to the following reasons:.

[a] Poor preparation for the examination

Failing to plan your study means you are planning to fail. Your poor preparation for the BECE will surely contribute to your failure. For some of you preparing for the 2024 BECE and WASSCE, you are the first child in your home to write such an exam. For others, your senior siblings might have written the same examination. If you fail to take your studies seriously, chances are that you will not be able to set any academic record that is difficult to break in the family, or you will not even break simple existing records. You need to take your studies to the next level and practice answering questions as part of your study.

[b] Lack of question-answering skills

Some students will fail the exam because they do not practice how to answer questions. Once you are not practicing, you will not acquire the right skills to put your ideas and answers in your memory on the answer sheet. This can lead to poor grades.

[c] Their inability to understand the examination questions and their poor thought-out responses.

Sadly, some students are not able to read and understand examination questions. For each exam type you will write, know the keywords used and what the examiner requires as answers. Ask your teachers to provide support by explaining the requirements of words such as explain, describe, discuss, etc. and mastering how to tackle such questions.

[d] Underestimating the demands of the examination questions

Read the question well and understand what is required of you as you write answers. If you cannot break down the question to its simplest form to know what to write, you will end up not providing a complete answer to the questions asked.

[e] Choose the wrong questions in the exam hall. Often, every candidate preparing for the BECE and WASSCE goes into the exam hall with their own strengths and weaknesses. Sadly, some students chase after or attempt to answer questions they are not confident about, leading to a loss of marks.

[f] Failure to read the questions very well and not understanding them.

You need to understand the requirements of the questions and provide appropriate answers to convince the examiner. Write with the intention of informing the examiner that you know what you are about. If you do not do this and your answers end up not communicating any useful information, you are likely to fail, scoring very low marks.

[g] Lack of planning or the absence of brainstorming of questions leading to rush answers and failure.

Students who do not have study timetables, those who just study what they feel like and those who do not plan how to go about learning their materials hardly make any progress. Often, they may be learning one subject more often than the rest and forget to deal with their weak areas. You are digging a failure grave if you concentrate on your favorite subjects and topics.

[h] For some students, they never get serious with their books if they come from well-to-do homes.

If you promise such students a trip to the UK or US after school to continue their education and live there for the rest of their lives, without any conditions such as passing their BECE or WASSCE, this promise can easily instill in them a sense of laziness and lack of challenge. If parents let such issues sink into the minds of their young learners, they should be ready to see poor grades from their studies.

[I] Poor study habits or poor learning skills

Poor study habits or poor learning skills, which include learning without a timetable, not making simplified notes and summaries during the study, not engaging in activities that will help them recollect what they learn, and, in some instances, just reading through without any effort to understand the facts.

[j] The student is not solving or attempting past questions of the relevant examination. Without this, the student is not able to test their understanding and readiness.

[K] Students failing to solve mock examination questions all over again can lead to failure.

Often, students preparing for the BECE and WASSCE choose a set of questions out of each mock and sit and answer them. However, once the mock is over, they feel they have done well and forget to solve the other questions they did not choose in the mock exam. It is important that students solve all the questions they did not choose and revise the topics associated with such questions. Often, if you do not choose a question in the mock or trial test, it simply means you have some sort of weakness in those unchosen questions. By revising them after their mock, you help yourself so that, just in case those questions are asked by WAEC in the BECE and WASSCE, you will not be shocked. This is one of the major reasons why more 2024 BECE and WASSCE candidates can easily fail.

If students preparing for the WAEC-administered exam at the BECE and WASSCE levels in West Africa can tap into the issues outlined here, they should improve their chances of passing the examinations.

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If you are falling behind and any one or more of the issues raised here affect you, it is time to get serous because these factors are some of the majoy reasons why more 2024 BECE and WASSCE candidates can easily fail. Sit up and start doing the right things so that you can taste success in your exam.