Re-sit students burn the midnight oil

Kwesiminstim (Western Region) -- Some junior secondary school students have converted the Out Patients' Department (OPD) of the Kwesiminstim Hospital in the Western Region into a study centre.

The about 50 students including from Apowa, Mpatado, Asakae, Whindo and Apremdo all outlying communities around Kwesiminstim, were busily preparing for the re-sit of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) scheduled to commerce today 2 July.

In an interview, Master Dela Minkah, who lives at Mpatado, said he was forced to come to the hospital when he realised that he could not study at home because of the noise and disturbances from his younger brothers and sisters. Master Minkah said though he did not ask permission before studying there, no official of the hospital had interrupted the revision exercises.

Miss Rosina Quaicoo, the only female among the boys said revision among the boys had given her more hope and inspiration for the impending examination. She said, on finding out that some of her colleagues were using the OPD of the hospital for studies, she informed her parents, who gave her permission to join them.

She usually left home around 8 p.m. and returned at dawn. She appealed to the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) to ensure that none of the examination papers, leaked again. Almost all the question papers for the Basic Education Certificate Examination were leaked last month forcing WAEC to conceal about eight of the papers.