Over 213 thousand students have begun sitting the written phase of examinations organized by the General Certificate of Education, GCE Board, for the 2024/2025 academic year. The examinations tipped off yesterday across the GCE Ordinary and Advanced levels and other series.
An estimated 213, 378 candidates will begin sitting the written part of the 2025 edition of examinations organized by the Cameroon General Certificate of Education, GCE Board this Tuesday June 3. The candidates will be writing in some 500 accommodation centres nationwide across the GCE Ordinary, Intermediate and Advanced Levels series. GCE Board statistics shows that 17 thousand additional candidates registered for this year’s session compared to what was obtained last year.
The figures represent an 8.6% increase in the number of candidates registered for this year’s exams when paired with what was obtained during the 2024 session. The Littoral Region is leading the chart nationally in terms of registered candidates with 49,829 of them in number. The Center and the South West regions follow suit on the second and third positions with some 49, 646 and 48, 662 candidates respectively. Struggling GCE bastion, the North West Region has inked an increase of 10.58% compared to what was registered last year after 33,742 candidates registered for this year’s series.
GCE Board ready for hitch-free delivery
The Head of the GCE Board Transition Management Team, Bernadette Ndi in a recent outing ahead of the start of the examination today, announced that the board is ready for a smooth holding of the examination nationwide. She told Sunday magazine radio programme, Cameroon Calling of state broadcaster, Crtv that measures have been put in place to guarantee a hitch-free running of the session.
“We organized service trainings, through pre-examinations meetings, on the 30th of May and the 31st. These meetings are such that rules and regulations for the conduct of the GCE Board examinations are listed,” Bernadette Ndi stated. “This is to ensure that everybody involved at every level during this written phase should be doing so under the same conditions. During the meetings, we revised the modalities on the specific regulations for the conduct of the GCE Board examinations…we have appointed centre authorities. Centre authorities for the written phase are…superintendents, chief of accommodation centres…, ” she further detailed. She also notably stated that the institution is partly placed in a fully confident mood by the success that was registered during the practical phase of the examinations and the board’s move to address issues relating to the payment of outstation allowances and other traditionally burning issues relating to the organization of exams like the GCE.
“Of the 216 subjects that the GCE Board is going to assess in this 2025 examination year, just about 1/5 of them have practical phases and this has actually gone on well” Bernadette Ndi said. “As far as examination dues are concerned, we have always made sure that what we call script dues are paid immediately the examiners finish marking. When the script data is submitted, the script data indicates how many scripts an examiner has marked and payment is calculated on the agreed sum…the sum due the examiners is immediately paid. We also have transport due which is refunded. The only due that is not paid immediately is what we refer to as examiners’ out of station due but before they come for the exercise, it is often understood that this will be paid sometime later. there is a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, that they sign,” Bernadette Ndi.
