Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, Minister of Education has appealed to candidates taking part in this year's Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) to refrain from all malpractices that are likely to jeopardize their future.
In goodwill message to the candidates and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Sunday, Mr Tettey-Enyo said: "It is my hope and prayer that all the efforts your teachers have made in teaching you all these years will reflect in your results."
Mr Tettey-Enyo, on behalf of the Ministry of Education and his own behalf, congratulated the candidates for going through the basic education course adding he was optimistic that they would perform well because "throughout your education your teachers have prepared you adequately for the examinations".
He pledged Government's preparedness to ensure that additional infrastructural facilities were provided in the Senior High Schools for their studies come September 2010.
This year's BECE begins throughout the country from Monday, April 19.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has sent a message of goodwill to all the 350,888 candidates, who begin their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) this year on Monday April 19, 2010.
A statement signed on Friday by Mr Charles Parker Allotey, Head of Public Relations of the Service said: "We have no doubt (whatsoever) that as candidates you will all enter the examination room with confidence because you have prepared adequately."
It also admonished the candidates to eschew all forms of examination malpractice, which unfortunately has been on the rise in recent times.
The statement said the attention of all supervisors, invigilators and candidates had been drawn to the rules and regulations governing the conduct of the Examinations.
It said the number of subjects for selection into Senior High Schools for September 2010 would now be five instead of six, previously.
The subjects are English Language; Mathematics; Integrated Science; Social Studies and one other best subject.
The grade in each subject for placement into the Senior High School would not be lower than grade five with an aggregate of 25 instead of the 30, previously.
The statement said the computerized system would still be use to process the raw scores obtained in the subjects for the selection.