BECE JHS
Responsible living is doing your duty when nobody is forcing you. It covers your body, your neighbour and the place you share.
The syllabus treats responsibility in layers. You care for your own body and time: you avoid harmful drugs and drunkenness, you keep clean, and you use time for school and rest rather than idleness. You care for other people: you do not cheat them, you keep promises, and chastity is taught as respect for yourself and for the other person. You care for the environment: you do not dump rubbish in the gutter or burn bush for sport, because other people drink the water and farm the land.
Religion supplies reasons, not only rules. Christian and Muslim teaching, and traditional moral teaching, all condemn theft, lies and waste. A responsible pupil can also say no to a group. Peer pressure is not a defence the mark scheme accepts. If an answer says "my friends made me", the better line is that responsibility includes choosing even when friends choose badly. Show the choice in a real school situation.
Link the behaviour to the person it affects. Drug abuse is not only "bad". It damages health, study and the family that pays the cost. One situation worked through beats five slogans. Do not invent a law or a penalty. You can say the act is illegal where that is true, as with some drugs, without inventing a sentence.
These are practice questions in the style of the paper, with a model answer and a mark scheme. They are not a promise of what your paper will ask.
4 marks
Explain two ways substance abuse harms a pupil, apart from the fact that it may be illegal. (4 marks)
It damages health, so the pupil is often ill and cannot concentrate. It also takes money that should have paid for food or school materials, and the family bears that cost.
2 marks
State two responsible ways a class can care for the school compound. (2 marks)
They can put rubbish in bins, and they can water and protect trees the school has planted.
2 marks
A friend says, "Everyone is copying, so it is not cheating." Give one reason this is not a responsible answer. (2 marks)
Copying is still dishonest when many people do it. Responsibility is about the act, not about how many friends join in.
More questions on this topic are inside GLearn, marked as you answer, with the reason written out. The first ones need no account.
Practise Religious and Moral Education freeIt means carrying out your duties to yourself, to other people and to the environment, including when nobody is watching. The syllabus includes care of the body, honesty, chastity, hard work and care of the surroundings.
A moral choice remains yours when friends choose differently. An answer that blames the group misses the idea of responsibility, which is that you can refuse. All BECE Religious and Moral Education past questions