By Mohamed Kamara
The Minister of Information and Civic Education, Chernor Bah, has released the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results and unveiled a new secondary school curriculum aimed at modernizing education in Sierra Leone.
A total of 130,135 candidates from 1,987 schools were registered for the BECE, with 124,565 sitting for at least one subject.
WAEC released results for 129,260 candidates, withholding 1,673. The detailed analysis for 122,037 candidates showed that 62,971 were female and 59,066 males, marking the fifth consecutive year that female candidates outnumbered males.
The overall pass rate in English and Mathematics stood at 94 percent, equivalent to 114,709 candidates.
The top performer was Mariama Yellie Bangura of Providence International School with an aggregate score of 7, followed by Aminata B. Sesay from St. Joseph Secondary School, Makeni, with an aggregate of 8.
Minister Bah also announced a major curriculum reform, moving from the traditional three streams – Arts, Science, and Commercial – to five modern streams: Science and Technology; Language and Literature; Social and Cultural Studies; Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship; and Mathematics and Numeracy.
The new curriculum features 70 subjects aligned with 21st-century skills. A phased transition begins in 2026, with students examined on 20 subjects from the new curriculum and 17 from the old, and full adoption scheduled for 2028.
The reforms aim to equip students with modern skills and better prepare them for higher education and the workforce.
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