Four students sitting for the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have been caught engaging in examination malpractice.
Reports suggest that the four BECE candidates were caught by external invigilators engaging in examination malpractice.
The information gathered suggests that among the four were a pair of twins who were found with swapped answer booklets.
The other two students were also busted exchanging question papers with written answers.
The news shared by SIKAOFFICIAL on X wrote, “Four students sitting for the BECE have been caught by external invigilators engaging in examination malpractice.
Among them was a pair of twins who were found with swapped answer booklets, while the other two students were discovered exchanging question papers with written answers”.
Rosemond Wilson the Head of the Ghana National Office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), in an interview with Channel One on May 6, 2026 stated, “There were four students. Two of them were twins, and they exchanged their answer booklets, and one was writing for the other. And then the other pair exchanged their question papers.
“And in their question papers, they’ve written solutions to some of the questions in them, so we will take it up and do further investigations,” she said.
“And the assumptions will be that if they are found culpable, that particular subject that they were involved in, will be canceled,” she stated.
Some Ghanains reacting to the news wrote, “But external invigilators ankasa be post kaya too much. Them naa dey sell the questions then them go out go catch students. We for dey catch them too”.
A netizen added, “Exam malpractice at this level isn’t just individual cheating, it reflects a system where performance pressure is higher than learning incentives. Over time, that erodes the value of every certificate issued”.
“What was the real purpose of recording that child and putting it out there? Yes, what he did in the exam hall was wrong, no doubt. But must we turn it into public spectacle?
These things follow a child for life and can damage their mental health. Discipline him, correct him, but don’t broadcast his mistake to the world. Not every wrongdoing needs headlines. Some lessons are better handled privately”, an X user suggested.
In related news, John Kapi, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Head of Public Affairs, has revealed that seven Teachers have been engaged in alleged examination malpractice during the ongoing 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
According to John Kapi, the arrests were made across three regions: the Central, Bono and Ashanti Regions.
He disclosed that three of the teachers were arrested in the Central Region, two in the Bono Region, and two in the Ashanti Region.
The Head of Public Affairs at WAEC disclosed that five of the teachers smuggled mobile phones into the examination halls, adding that investigations revealed that some solved questions on external platforms.
He further detailed that others fed questions into AI tools such as ChatGPT, while some took snapshots of examination questions.
Mr Kapi disclosed that some of the suspects relied on ChatGPT to generate answers, which were then dictated to candidates during the examinations.
He further highlighted that the two remaining suspects had no phones but were implicated in the malpractice scheme, one caught distributing prepared answers to candidates and the other duplicating answer sheets intended for candidates.
According to him, the suspect has been handed over to various police stations for investigation.
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Four students sitting for the BECE have been caught by external invigilators engaging in examination malpractice.
— SIKAOFFICIAL🦍 (@SIKAOFFICIAL1) May 6, 2026
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