Mid Semester Break For Schools: Basic Schools Included?

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On Thursday, 25th May, 2023, the Ghana Education Service announced a mid semester break for senior high schools in Ghana. All senior high schools and senior high Technical schools in the country will be going on break from 2nd June, 2023 to 9th June, 2023.

Basic schools are not included.

The mid semester break is for all students in the senior high school except for those on vacation. According to the Ghana Education Service, this mid semester break is not compulsory. This means, any student who decides to stay on campus must be accommodated and fed.

Also, according to GES, any senior high school that do not want its final year students to go home because of the school’s WASSCE preparation measures are permitted to do so.

ARE BASIC SCHOOLS INCLUDED?

Basic Schools in Ghana are not part of this Mid Semester Break. This break is solely for senior high/technical schools in Ghana. Basic schools will however be going on vacation on 16th June, 2023. This is just two weeks after SHS Mid Semester Break.

The 2023 WASSCE is just around the corner and all final year students are currently preparing towards the exams..

This will be the break for all final year SHS students before they write their West African Secondary School Certificate Examination. It will be a one week break for the students to enable them prepare well at home before the exams begins.

Students will be at home in order to get some vital items for the exams, such as calculators, mathematical sets, practical tools and finally, blessings from their parents. This vacation is a very short one and students are expected to resume on 9th June, 2023 to continue their academic work.

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Candidates should not put fear in them as the WASSCE is sometimes considered as a just another classroom test. What candidates needs to do is to study and also be in class for the last ‘APOR’ from teachers.

Also, candidates should study past questions. One secret most candidates doesn’t know about the WASSCE is that, WAEC doesn’t really set new questions. About 90% of all WASSCE questions are all past questions. WAEC usually frame the questions to make it new, but it’s a past question. Candidates should concentrate on the last five WASSCE past questions; which include; 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018.