Internal and external candidates for the 2011 General Certificate of Education (GCE) began the written session of the examination nationwide on monday, May 30. Reports gathered so far indicate that the examination is going-on smoothly in all the nooks and crannies of the country with all measures taken to check examination mal-practices. The Registrar of the GCE Board, Humphrey Monono, paid a working visit to the East Region at the start of the examination to oversee its organisation in that part of the country.

Talking to Cameroon Tribune over the phone, Humphrey Monono said out of the 115,268 candidates expected to participate in all the 2011 examinations organised by the General Certificate of Education, 346 of them are in the East Region precisely in Bertoua, Batouri and Abong-Mbang. Knowing the remote nature of some areas in the East Region, Humphrey Monono decided to see for himself the organisation of the examination in that region. The Registrar of the GCE Board says he was impressed with the manner in which GCE is taking place in the East Region. All candidates were present. Invigilators and chiefs of centres were also present to ensure that the exams are properly conducted. “So far, so good, the 2011 GCE is appropriately taking place”, Humphrey Monono noted.

At 8:00 am yesterday in Yaounde, candidates sitting the 2011 Ordinary Level in Economics, Advanced Level in Economics and Geology were seen in various examination centres in the city taking part in the Paper I written phase of these subjects. At Centre number 1036, at Government Bilingual High School, Essos, Yaounde, the Assistant Chief of Centre who is also the Vice Principal of the School, Cornelius Ngesi, said although some candidates were late, no problem had been recorded and no candidate was late for more than 30 minutes after the examinations had started. Cornelius Ngesi said if a candidate came to the examination hall 30 minutes after the start of the exams, such a candidate will be disqualified from writing that subject.

Noting that the centre is the largest examination centre in the city of Yaounde, grouping four schools with a total of 2,450 candidates, Cornelius Ngesi added that all the 90 invigilators were present to prevent examination mal-practices. Just like at the Government Bilingual Practicing High School in Yaounde (LBA) which groups internal and external candidates of examination Centres Number 1009 and 1008 respectively, candidates have been placed in such a way that there is no room for cheating. That is one candidate per desk with at least two invigilators per examination hall. The Principal of LBA, George Niba Suh, said all candidates were on time with no problem registered. Some of the candidates said Economics Paper 1 was within reach.