GES reveals when students can change SHS after CSSPS enrolment

Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) graduates entering second-cycle school as first-year students can change their current placed school after one academic year, an official of the Ghana Education Service (GES) said last year, describing such movement as a school transfer.

The GES official comment comes after he was asked if “It is possible for candidates who sat for last year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to change schools after the placement enrollment process has been completed.”

In response, the GES official said, “It will not be possible to change school now, adding that a first-year student can only do that after one academic year, a movement he described as school transfer.

So, for now, you can not change your placement school; you can only do that after an academic year. Any movement from one school to another after school placement enrollment is considered a transfer.”

Speaking in an interview monitored by Pretertiary.com, he said Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who had grade 9 in English Language and Mathematics were not qualified for school placement.

“Technically, if you had grade 9 in English Language or Mathematics, you are not qualified to be placed, so out of that, some people were eliminated from the placement criteria,” the GES official said in the interview.

A total of 590,309 BECE candidates this year qualified for second-cycle school (SHS/TVET) placement. Out of this, 483,800 were placed automatically, while 107,000 secured schools through self-placement.

According to the Ministry of Education, of the 483,800 BECE graduates who secured automatic second-cycle school placement, 234,783, representing 48.6% were boys, and 248,038, representing 51.4% were girls.

It indicated that 82 per cent (82%) of qualified students who sat for the 2025 edition of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have been placed in their first-choice second-cycle schools.

This 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.

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. After your placement result has been displayed, print the school placement slip and enrolment form slip.

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.”