The Computerised School Selection
Placement System (CSSPS) has
successfully placed 272,330 Basic
Education Certificate Examinations
(BECE) candidates into senior high
schools (SHS) and technical
institutions (TIs).
The acting Director-General of the
Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr
Charles Aheto-Tsegah, who
announced this explained that the
figure represented the first batch of
the placement exercise and directed
all heads of schools to declare
available vacancies early enough for
the second placement by October 23,
2014.
Addressing a press conference in
Accra, he said there were an
outstanding number of 149,890
candidates who would be placed
under the second batch of the
exercise.
This year, 422,220 candidates sat for
the BECE. Out of the number, 421,270
are eligible for placement into SHSs
and TIs.
The computerised system used the
total processed raw scores of six
subjects instead of grades of each
candidate for the selection.
Consequently, the raw scores have
been posted on the net.
Candidates are placed in their first
choice schools using the ranking
order. The raw scores of each
candidate were used to do the
ranking.
Candidates wishing to check on the
schools where they have been placed
could do so from September 25, 2014
by buying a scratch card for Ghc4.00
at any of the rural banks and their
agencies, post offices and Unibank
Ghana Ltd, as well as the Agricultural
Development Bank (ADB).
“All qualified BECE candidates can
now know their school placement by
texting their index numbers followed
by one of the following numbers 11,
12, 13 or 14 which represents their
specific examination year to SMS
Short code 1060 to all mobile phone
networks preferably Thursday,
September 25, 2014,” Mr Aheto-
Tsegah announced.
He said, the admission letters could
be accessed using special PIN CODES
online from October 6, 2014. He said a
successful candidate would be able
to print out his/her admission letter
from the internet using the PIN CODE,
at a price of four Ghana Cedis only
(Ghc4. 00).
“The print out letter will then be
presented to the senior high school
for admission,” he explained, adding,
“The CSSPS website address is as
follows: http:www.myjhsresult.net.
For suggestions and further
information please e-mail the
secretariat at info@csspsghana.com”.
Mr Aheto-Tsegah, however, explained
that where no internet facilities
existed, candidates were to contact
the nearest regional or district
education directorate or present their
codes to the headteachers of their
junior high schools to obtain the
printout.
A total of 419 candidates scored
grade nine in all the subjects and,
therefore, cannot seek admission into
any SHS or TI.
Mr Aheto-Tsegah further announced
that 408,152 vacancies were declared
by SHSs and TIs and was hopeful that
all eligible candidates would be
placed under the CSSPS.
The Ag Director-General explained
that even though the declared
vacancies did not match the eligible
candidates, there were other options
for candidates who could not secure
admission into any of their preferred
schools.
He said, for instance, after the
second placement, those who would
still not secure placement would have
the opportunity of selecting a school
of their choice from among a list of
schools for placement, stressing, “we
would not select the school for any
students.”
Mr Aheto-Tsegah advised parents to
give the CSSPS officials peace of
mind to carry out their duties,
stressing that the CSSPS Secretariat
would not entertain parents who
wanted to change the schools their
children had been placed in.
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