Candidates sitting this year’s BECE at Kpongunor in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region have been given a boost ahead of the examination.

Assemblyman for the Kpongunor-South Electoral Area, John Tetteh Atter has donated over 140 pieces of mathematical sets to the candidates preparing for this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

The presentation forms part of measures to ensure that no candidate lacks the basic learning inputs required for the BECE.

Making the presentation at a short ceremony at Kpongunor, Mr. John Tetteh Atter said the mathematical sets were being donated to boost the candidates’ preparedness.

The donation comes ahead of the July 08 to July 12 external exams.

The initiative which began about five years ago drew over 140 students from various schools across the Kpongunor-North and Kpnor-South Electoral Areas.

Explaining the rationale behind the engagement, the Assemblyman said most candidates were found lacking some relevant materials and logistics for the examination.

“We’ve put our eyes down and seen that some of the children do not have the items to write the exams, they lack maths sets and things, we’ve come together to support them,” said the first-time Assembly member.

According to him, the platform also offered them the opportunity to encourage the students ahead of the examination. The Assemblyman noted: “As we normally do, every year during examinations like this, we gather the students, talk to them, after talking to them, we give them some items for the exams.”

Expressing satisfaction over the turnout, he said the enthusiasm shown by the students by turning out in their numbers convinced him of a favourable output in the upcoming test.

The Assemblyman added that the gesture wasn’t the end of his intervention as he had similar packages available for them including assisting them all the way to the tertiary level. According to him, a technocrat’s developers had been formed to help science and maths students which would be launched in due course.

The intervention, he explained is geared towards ensuring that students from the Krobo area who represent their respective schools in the national science and maths quiz, excel in the competition.

Mr. Atter encouraged the candidates to approach the examination with confidence to ensure that they record flying colours.

He entreated them to be confident as they were capable of successfully passing the exams to enable further their education at the senior high school level.
Colleague Assembly member for Kpongunor-North, Noah Tackie, as part of preparing the students for the exams, took them through how to comport themselves in the exam hall, the right approaches to writing the examination and appropriately answering the questions.

He was hopeful that the engagement with the students would go a long way in adequately preparing them for the examination and registering the desirable results.