36,000 BECE candidates fail to secure placement
A total of 36,849 out of the 424,092 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who qualified for placement into senior high schools (SHSs), technical and vocational institutes under the Computerised Schools Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) failed to secure placement.
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This number, representing eight per cent of the total number of qualified candidates, could not get the placement because they scored Grade 9 or failed in either English or Mathematics.
A statement issued by the acting Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, said 267,327 candidates secured placements in schools of their choice, while 150,770 candidates could not be placed in the schools of their choice.
“They are being given the second chance of choosing schools. The qualified candidates who did not get schools of their choice should go online and select from the options available within 48 hours from today,” the statement, dated August 31, 2017, said.
It said candidates could check their status from 8 a.m. on September 1, 2017 by logging onto www.myjhsresult.net and follow the online instructions.
Text to check
The statement advised candidates who wished to know the schools where they had been placed to add 17 to their 10-digit index numbers and text to short code 1060 on MTN, Vodafone, Airtel and Tigo.
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Academic year
“The 2017/18 academic year for all senior high schools will commence on September 11, 2017. All Form One students are expected to report to their schools on that day,” it added.
On August 21, 2017, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) released this year's BECE results and the CSSPS began the process of placing the candidates in the various SHSs of their choice across the country.
Statistics
A total of 468,060 candidates, made up of 241,154 males and 226,906 females, sat for the examination. The number of candidates for this year’s BECE was 1.53 per cent higher than that for the previous year’s.
