The Oyo State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has cancelled Cultural Creative Art and Arabic Language Subjects in the ongoing Basic Education Certification Examination (BECE) over technical errors.
Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Abdulraheem Abdulrahman, who disclosed this, yesterday, while monitoring the BECE in five local councils within the Ibadan metropolis, said that both subjects would be re-written.
It will be recalled that, 2022 Arabic BECE questions was written yesterday Monday, 25th July, 2022.
Westerndailynew.com learnt that, Muslim school owners, Arabic teachers, students in JSS 3, stakeholders in education, concerned citizens of the state and parents lamented bitterly over the Arabic questions written with poor and illegible handwriting in the ongoing Oyo State JSS 3 BECE.
It was affirmed that, the questions laced with multiple ERRORS and argued that, experts in Arabic also find reading it difficult, not to talk of JSS 3 kids.
The request of the Arabic education stakeholders on Oyo state after the subject was written by the student was that, new Arabic questions neatly typed must be provided and students are to re-write it, adding that, If Cultural and Creative Arts (CCA) as a subject could also be cancelled that same yesterday because of errors, Arabic with multiple ERRORS was in best position to be cancelled and rescheduled.
