Wake BECE.Learning.Ap
Wake BECE.Learning.Ap
Everything you need to use Wake BECE.Learning.Ap — how to start, which subjects it teaches, how lessons, listening and writing practice work, how to read a report, and how to keep results safe.
For app version 0.1
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Every pupil in JHS 1, 2 and 3 in Ghana works towards the Basic Education Certificate Examination (the BECE), set by WAEC at the end of JHS 3. This app teaches the BECE subjects one short lesson at a time, with practice after every lesson and an explanation after every answer.
It is for JHS pupils, usually eleven and over. Every BECE subject is in one app, for one price, each in its own folder on the home screen.
It does not mark writing. Marking an essay properly needs a person, and the only other way would be to send the pupil's work to an outside company, which this app never does. Instead it gives the task, a clock, a word count, a model answer and a checklist, and a button to send the writing to a teacher.
It does not copy past papers: its passages and questions are its own, written to the examination's published format. And its report describes work done in the app; it is not an examination result.
The app runs in a web browser, but it is meant to live on the home screen like any other app. On Android, open it in Chrome, tap the three dots and choose Add to Home screen or Install app. On iPhone, open it in Safari, tap the share button and choose Add to Home Screen.
Once it is there it opens full screen and works with no internet at all.
Opening the file inside WhatsApp, Gmail or a file manager shows a preview, and previews do not run apps: the buttons will not respond. Ask for the web link rather than the file, and open it in Chrome or Safari.
Tap Add a learner, then give a first name, an age and a picture. No email is asked for, and the free trial starts at once. Before it ends the app shows the plans; when it ends it offers a few more free days, once. An email is asked for only if you choose to pay, because the receipt goes there.
Nothing is locked. The lessons are numbered in a sensible order, but a learner whose examination is close can go straight to the skill they need most.
One lesson a day, five days a week, and one writing task each week. Read every page, and read the explanation after every answer — including the ones you got right. Use earphones for listening practice.
▲ Back to the contentsEach subject follows the NaCCA curriculum for JHS 1–3 and the way WAEC sets its BECE papers. Each has its own folder on the home screen: tap a folder to see its parts, and ◀ All subjects to come back.
| Subject | What is in it |
|---|---|
| English Language | Grammar, vocabulary, sounds, reading, summary, letters and essays, and literature — with practice Paper 1s. The set books are never quoted; every passage is the app's own. |
| Mathematics | The whole JHS course year by year, practice Paper 1s, and Paper 2s worked step by step. |
| Integrated Science | Agriculture, biology, chemistry and physics, with practice papers. |
| Social Studies | The environment, maps, family life, the nation, law and order, work and money, and Ghana's history, with practice papers. |
| Religious and Moral Education | Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religion, each in its own terms; moral teaching; practice papers. |
| Computing | The JHS course, and flowcharts and algorithms for Paper 2's compulsory question. |
| Career Technology | Safety, materials, food, clothing, woodwork and metalwork, technical drawing, and careers. |
| Creative Arts and Design | Design, drawing, art, music (drawn on the staff), dance and drama. |
| French | Sounds, grammar and everyday French, with words and recordings read aloud by the phone's French voice. |
All eleven languages WAEC sets have been written, and each is being checked by a teacher of that language before pupils see it. Each one appears in its own folder as soon as its check is done.
Tap a lesson and its pages appear one at a time — Next page and Back move between them. On the last page, Start the drill appears (and Start the writing task where the lesson has one). A learner who already knows the lesson can skip straight there from any page.
| Kind | What the learner does |
|---|---|
| Choose the answer | Taps one of three or four answers. The wrong answers are the traps the examination really sets, so guessing does not pay. |
| Type the answer | Types a word, a few words or a number, then taps Check. The word limit is printed under the box. |
As the examination marks them. Spelling counts, and an answer with more words than the limit is wrong even when the words are right. Capital letters and spare spaces do not matter. Where the examination accepts more than one form — British or American spelling, a number in figures or in words — every accepted form is shown after the answer.
A reading question shows its passage in a box above the answers. The box scrolls on its own, so the question and the answers stay close by; tap its title to fold it away.
After every answer, right or wrong, the app shows the right answer and why it is right, usually pointing to the words in the passage or recording. Nothing moves on by itself.
About four in ten questions in a round are drawn from what that learner has missed before. Mixed revision on the home screen draws questions from every lesson started.
▲ Back to the contentsThe French lessons have recordings. Nothing is downloaded: the phone reads the recording aloud with its own French voice. That is why it costs no data and works with no internet. If the phone has no French voice, nothing is played, and the app says how to add one — it never reads French with an English voice. A French word in a lesson can be tapped to hear it.
Settings has the speed (slower, normal, a little faster). On iPhone, a French voice can be added under Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices → French.
▲ Back to the contentsA writing task shows the question exactly as the examination would, how long to spend and how many words to write.
The model answer is one good way to answer, not the only one, and the checklist is for the learner's own judgement. The app never gives a mark for writing.
Reports, Settings, Support and the class dashboard sit behind a multiplication question. It is not security; it simply stops a report or a setting being changed by accident.
Points, drills done, best score and the day streak sit at the top. Below them, Go straight to a part has a button for every part. Each lesson tile shows how many pages and questions it has, whether it has a writing task or speaking practice, and — once done — the percentage right or a tick for the task.
My chart shows scores over time and a board of every lesson, green where it is secure. Questions I miss lists the questions this learner gets wrong most often, with a button to practise exactly those.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Questions per round | 5, 10, 15 or 20. A lesson's drill never repeats a question to fill a round. |
| Way of speaking and voice | Which accent and voice read the questions, models and recordings. If a voice is hard to make out, choose another and press Hear this voice. |
| Speed of the listening recordings | Slower to learn from, normal, or a little faster. |
| Sounds | Turns the tones off. Recordings still play when asked for. |
| Animations | Turns off movement. |
| Bring back questions I missed more often | Weaves past mistakes back into rounds. Leave it on. |
The report is written from the learner's own recorded answers: drills done, accuracy, each part and each lesson, a chart, the questions missed most with the point each one teaches, and recommendations. You can print it, save it as a PDF, email it or send it on WhatsApp. It is not a BECE grade. Only WAEC's own examination gives one.
With a class licence, the teacher's dashboard shows every learner on the device, sorted so whoever needs attention comes first. A teacher using Wake Mark.Book.Ap can bring the weekly drill marks into their mark book. Writing is sent to the teacher with the button on each writing task.
▲ Back to the contentsA licence belongs to the household or the classroom, not to one learner. A family paying for three learners is never asked to pay again for the second.
Schools can receive a code after payment. Enter it on the plans screen. You need internet for this one step: a code is checked with our server the first time it is used. After that the app works with no internet, for as long as the plan lasts.
Each Wake app has its own codes, and a code for one app will not open another. If the wrong one is entered, the app says which app the code belongs to.
A warning appears a few days before. When it ends, nothing is deleted — the learner's whole history stays and returns the moment the plan is renewed.
▲ Back to the contentsTurn the phone's volume up and check it is not on silent. Some phones have no English voice installed: on Android, look in Settings for Text-to-speech; on iPhone, Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices. If the phone cannot read aloud at all, the words of the recording can still be read after answering.
Look at the accepted answers shown: the usual cause is a spelling, a plural, or one word too many — all of which the examination marks wrong too. If you are sure the app is wrong, tell us through Support, saying which lesson and question.
Almost always the browser's data was cleared, or the app was opened in a different browser. Results live in the browser that made them. Restore from a backup — see the next chapter.
Close every tab of the app and open it again, with internet on.
▲ Back to the contentsEvery result and every piece of writing lives in this browser on this device, and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded to us. That keeps a learner's work private — and it means that clearing the browser, changing phone or reinstalling will lose it unless you have saved a backup. Recordings are never kept at all.
Settings → Save a backup writes a small file to the device. Email it to yourself and it is safe. To bring it back: Settings → Restore from a backup. If the learner already exists on the device, the copy with more history is kept.
Settings → Clear results wipes that learner's scores but keeps the learner and the subscription. Settings → Erase this pupil removes the learner and everything they did. It cannot be undone, so save a backup first.
Wake BECE.Learning.Ap · user manual · for app version 0.1. One of the Wake Learning Apps. The BECE is set by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), which does not endorse this app.
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