Reporting date for ‘First-year’ SHS students not mandatory – MoE

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has slated October 18, 2025, for 2025 BECE graduates to report to their various placed second-cycle schools as first-year SHS/TVET students, but the Ministry of Education (MoE) says students who do not report on the said date will not lose their admission.

In an interview monitored by Pretertiary.com last year, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Education explained that the reporting date is for the first-year students to begin their second cycle school registration processes.

“Students are expected to go to school to begin the registration process, which also goes through orientation. So it is not that if you do not go to school on the reporting date, you will lose your admission,” the MoE spokesman said.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said the October 18, 2025, reporting date for first-year students for the 2025/2026 academic calendar applies to single-track and transitional second-cycle schools.

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

Of the 483,800 Basic Education Certificate Examination graduates who secured automatic second-cycle school placement, 234,783, representing 48.6% were boys, and 248,038, representing 51.4% were girls.

A total of 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.

According to Dr Clement Abas Apaak, 49 out of 70 private Senior High Schools (private SHSs) have been made available for self-placement at the Computerised School Selection and Placement System.

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.”

Else if not successful, you will get this message: “Placement Submission Failed. An error occurred while submitting your self-placement request. Please try again.”