See the recommended browser for checking SHS/TVET placement

Following the downtime of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) portal  https://cssps.gov.gh, Pretertiary.com recommends that students use the Mozilla Firefox browser to check their 2025 second-cycle school (SHS/TVET) placement.

We have found out that Mozilla Firefox makes checking the school placement less stressful compared to the Chrome browser, which gives this error: “Oops! An Error Occurred. The server returned a “405 Method Not Allowed”.Something is broken. Please let us know what you were doing when this error occurred. We will fix it as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.”

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education (MoE) says it is working to resolve the downtime issue with the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) portal (https://cssps.gov.gh).

How to check 2025 SHS/TVET placement

1. Visit the CSSPS portal

2. Enter your 10-digit index number, followed by “25” to indicate the year you wrote the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) (for example, 123456789025).

3. Enter your Date of Birth (The Date of Birth you used during registration for the Basic Education Certificate Examination)

3. Click on the Sign in button and wait for the placement result to be displayed.

How to do 2025 SHS/TVET self-placement

1. Visit the CSSPS portal

2. Enter the Index number and add 25 (the last two digits of the Basic Education Certificate (BECE) year)

3. Enter Date of Birth (optional)

4. Click on the Sign in button to be redirected to the CSSPS dashboard

5. Click on the Self-placement section

6. Select region (Choose the region you want to select a school from) and then click on Submit Selection

7. Select school (Only schools with vacancies are shown in the selected region) and then click on Submit Selection

8. Select program (Only programs in the selected school with vacancies are shown) and then click on Submit Selection

9. Select Reference type and click on submit

If successful, you will get a notice that your “self-placement application has been submitted, print the school slip, and the enrolment form to confirm.” Else if not successful, you will get this message: “Placement Submission Failed. An error occurred while submitting your self-placement request. Please try again.”

Acting Deputy Director-General (Q & A), Dr Munawaru Issahaque, GES, instructed all Regional Directors of Education to communicate the release of the school placement results to District Directors and Heads of schools.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has warned that no second-cycle school (SHS/TVET) is permitted to admit students outside the official placement without prior written approval from GES.

2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) graduates placed in one of their selected second-cycle schools are expected to report to their respective schools on October 18, 2025.

GES has directed Heads of second-cycle schools to ensure that registration is conducted smoothly in line with the provided guidelines, stating that any infractions, including unauthorized admissions, will attract administrative sanctions.

Regional and District Directors have been tasked to provide supervisory support to ensure compliance to guarantee a transparent and successful admission process for the 2025 academic year.

A total of 603,328 candidates, comprising 297,250 males and 306,078 females, from nineteen thousand, five hundred and five (19,505) Junior High Schools (JHSs) entered for the school examination.

This includes seventy-two (72 ) candidates with visual impairment, two hundred and thirty-nine (239) with hearing impairment, and one hundred and sixty-one (161) candidates with other test accommodation needs.

The examination was conducted at two thousand, two hundred and thirty-seven (2,237 ) centres across the country. Out of the total number, two thousand, five hundred and twenty-six (2,526) candidates were absent.

The BECE for Private Candidates recorded a total entry figure of one thousand, three hundred and ninety (1,661) candidates. This was made up of eight hundred and fifty-eight (858) males and eight hundred and three (803 ) females.

Fifteen (15) centres, mostly in the regional capitals, were used for the BECE for Private Candidates. Out of the total number of candidates who entered for the examination, fifty-seven (57) were absent.