How To Pass BECE and WASSCE Using Mock Exam Questions

Do you know that as a student in JHS2 or SHS3, you can pass BECE and WASSCE using your school mock exam questions and those you get from other schools? In this all-important article, we will look at how to make the most of your mock examinations.

As part of preparations towards writing BECE and WASSCE, schools organise both internally set and externally accessed mock questions for their candidates. These mocks can be described as dress rehearsals to test the readiness of students and to identify their strengths and weaknesses. The challenges faced by students, the errors they make, and their weaknesses are corrected with the help of their teachers.

Sadly, many students fail to use the mock examinations to their full advantage.

The reality is that students choose up to three questions to answer per mock, leaving at least three to six more questions asked in such mocks unanswered during the mock session.

Very often, students will choose mock questions they can confidently deal with in their examinations.

The big questions that have to be answered are as follows:.

1. What happens to the remaining BECE and WASSCE mock questions the candidate did not answer?
2. What will you do as a candidate if the very questions you always dodged in your three to five mocks end up being the exact questions you are asked in the BECE and WASSCE?

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How to Pass BECE and WASSCE Using Mock Exam Questions

The strategies to deal with the above and be super ready for the BECE and WASSCE to ensure no questions surprise you in the main examinations are explained below.

To pass BECE and WASSCE using mock exam questions, do the following:.

1. Get as many mock questions as you can from your colleagues in other schools and photocopy them. The best way to get these is to swap your mocks with them.
2. Keep all your mock exam questions intact and safe for your revisions after each mock.
3. Revisit the mock questions asked in the exam. Pay close attention to the mock questions you did not choose and did not solve well in the mock.
4. Revisit your notes and revise the topics from which the mock questions you did not solve were set.
5. Solve all the mock questions you get from your colleagues in other schools.
6. Share your external mock questions with your teacher and friends. Solve them with your friends.

It is important for students preparing for the BECE and WASSCE to note that WAEC, as an external examiner, can ask the very questions you did not solve during the mock examination.

After revising the topics related to the mock questions you did not answer during the mock, take the mock again at home and time yourself. Choose a blend of the questions you chose and solved in the mock exam hall as well as the ones you have revised but did not answer in the exam hall. By doing this, you will notice that you now have more options to choose from. This is exactly what will happen in the main exam hall if you revise all the questions you did not answer in your mocks.

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To avoid surprises, revise the topics extensively. Again, get your teacher to help explain questions you still have difficulties with.

Revise past papers in general, and pay particular attention to the answers provided for each past question assessed.

We hope these tips on how to pass BECE and WASSCE using mock exam questions will go a long way towards helping you prepare very well for your impending examination.