Do you know the 2024 BECE marking process likely to be used by WAEC?
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) will, as usual, follow its formal processes for marking the 2024 BECE. This post will provide a detailed explanation of every step involved in script marking, leading up to the final release of results each year.
This will provide candidates, parents, and all stakeholders with a fair and useful knowledge of the processes that go on behind the scenes.
What are the 11 steps WAEC will likely use when marking the 2024 BECE?
Each year, WAEC follows the steps explained below for marking BECE scripts.
The development, finalisation, and application of marking schemes follow standardised procedures.
Step 1: WAEC develops a single standard marking scheme for each paper or subject.
Step 2: The developed marking scheme for each subject is presented to the National Preliminary Coordination meeting, where it is finalised. All chief examiners and WAEC zonal leaders for the respective subjects attend this crucial meeting. This year’s coordination will involve the examiners reviewing the marking schemes of 11 subjects at this stage.
Step 3: During the review, the examiners agree and disagree on what should constitute the final answer for both sections A and B. When there are multiple correct answers to a question, as in Section B, we approve all these alternative answers and use them to update the marking schemes.
Step 4: We then mark a few candidate scripts using the final marking scheme for each of the 11 subjects. This helps test the scheme for accuracy and consistency.
Step 5: Zonal Coordination Meetings for Chief Examiners, Zonal Team Leaders, and Team Leaders move the “final” schemes to markIing venues across the country, where they again mark dummy scripts and ensure consistency in the award of marks.
Step 6: The final marking schemes for each subject are distributed to all examiners for use in creating the candidate scripts.
Step 7: WAEC uses its script distribution criteria to transfer scripts between regions, for example, sending the scripts of students who take the exam in Accra to the Volta region and the Volta region’s scripts to the Savannah region for marking and grading.
Step 8: After the marking, the scripts are cross-checked by another set of senior examiners to ensure that candidates are not cheated or favoured. The cross-checking helps identify errors and correct them on the scripts.
Step 9: Candidates who sit for the BECE receive their grades using the Stanine Grading System. Unlike teacher-made assessments, there are no fixed grade boundaries for the BECE. The grade boundaries for each subject vary from year to year depending on the candidate’s performance.
Step 10: WAEC conducts a series of meetings and quality checks. WAEC deals with preliminary issues such as examination malpractice and students caught in the act of cheating, among others.
Step 11: WAEC releases result checkers for checking the BECE results at least three days before the official release of the results on its portal.
Step 12: Among other things, we prepare the examination report, upload the results online, and then release them.
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The grading system for B.E.C.E students in 2024
Grade 1 for raw scores ranging between 90-100
Grade 2 for raw scores ranging between 80-89
Grade 3 for raw scores ranging between 70-79
Grade 4 for raw scores ranging between 60-69
Grade 5 for raw scores ranging between 55-59
Grade 6 for raw scores ranging between 50-54
Grade 7 for raw scores ranging between 40-49
Grade 8for raw scores ranging between 35-39
Grade 9 for raw scores ranging between 0-34
In this post, we have simplified the WAEC’s 12 steps for marking BECE scripts for candidates.
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