There have been joyous outpouring from Junior High School candidates who completed the Basic Education Certificate Examination successfully on Friday. In some insstances, candidates traded in powder-throwing, smearing their colleagues in congratulatory gestures as they stormed out of the exams halls into a new world. Some shouted "it is all over" and for others it was "the toils are over". French papers I and II completed the week-long exercise that will be the basis for the selection of students for Senior High School and Technical Schools. The exams started on Monday, April 19 with over 300,000 candidates nationwide. Myjoyonline visited some centres in Accra including the O’Reilly High School Centre which had a total of 276 candidates from five different schools. Centre supervisor M.S.K Dankwa told Myjoyonline.com that all candidates had been present throughout the week to take the exams. He noted that the only problem the centre encountered had to do with two candidates who could not write the pre-technical skills paper because they were not registered for any of the options under the subject. The Accra High School Centre B on the other hand had 230 candidates drawn from nine schools. Five candidates were persistently absent. According to Centre supervisor J.T. Tugah, the centre did not encounter any problem throughout the 5-day exams except for the John Harvard Junior High School which did not write the French paper because its candidates were not registered. A total of 236 candidates took the exams at the Accra High School Centre A. These candidates also came from nine schools all in Accra. Three candidates were absent from Monday to Thursday but four did not turn up on Friday to write the French papers.