CSSPS reveals date to release BECE second-cycle school placement

We are hoping to release the second-cycle school placement of students who sat for the 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) a week before October 30, 2024, the National Coordinator of the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), Mark Sasu has disclosed.
“We expect that a week before October 30, 2024, that the 2024 BECE graduates would report to their various second-cycle schools, we will be able to release the computer second-cycle school placement,” he said.
Asked if the limited time won’t put pressure on the Computerized School Selection and Placement System Secretariat Sasu said once his outfit has all the five sets of data available they will be able to match the deadline.
Speaking in an interview monitored by Pretertiary.com, he said his outfit is gathering five sets of data thus the school register, master file or bio file, choice file, vacancy file and results file to process the second cycle school placement.
Sasu said the Director-General of Ghana Education Service and TVET and the Minister of Education have met with various security agencies to tackle cases of second-cycle school placement fraud and fraudsters.
“This being an election year we know people will capitalize on audits and try to maybe cause mayhem in the system. We want to tell them that the security agencies are wide awake and if anybody does that he or she will be picked up,” he stated.
This year, the National Coordinator for the CSSPS said four types of students will be processed for computer school placement, the type of students he said are regular students, private students, foreign students and re-entry students.
A total of 569,236 candidates, comprising 282,703 males and 286,533 females from nineteen thousand, five hundred and five (19,505) participating Junior High Schools (JHSs) entered for the school examination.
This includes fifty-nine (59) candidates with visual impairment, two hundred and sixty-three (263) with hearing impairment and one hundred and sixty-one (161) candidates with other test accommodation needs.
The examination was conducted at Two thousand, one hundred and twenty-three (2,123) centres across the country. Out of the total number, three thousand, eight hundred and forty-five (3,845) candidates were absent.