GES Reopens Self-Placement Portal for Third Chance of SHS School Placement

In a social media post, the Ghana Education Service (GES) officially announces the reopening of the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) Self-Placement Portal for the third time to give a chance to those who have still not been placed by the automatic placement and have not been enrolled by the self-placement system. In the post dated 28th October 2019 the Ghana Education Service (GES) made this known with the statement:

Be Informed….
If you were not placed in any of your five choices or have done self-placement and wish to change, visit the self-placement portal on www.cssps.gov.gh or www.csssps.org. to choose a school
The portal has been populated with more schools vacancies.
NOTE: This does not apply to candidates who were auto placed or did self placement and have enrolled.

The Ghana Education Service, (GES) has reopened Self-Placement Portal for Second Chance of SHS School Placement. This does not apply to candidates who were auto placed or did self-placement and have enrolled.

To begin the self placement you would need an e voucher, when the cssps was initially opened, you could buy an e voucher on the cssps website but that is no more. The e voucher purchase module of the cssps was closed on september 10th 2019 and a new directive was given on how to buy the e voucher for your self placement. The new directive is explained below.

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New Directive On How to Purchase The BECE / SHS Placement E-Voucher 2019 / 2020

So from now on to by an e-voucher to check your BECE /SHS Placement and subsequently do the self placement , you have to buy from an authorized e-voucher vendor as stated here: BECE / SHS School Placement Approved E-Voucher Vendors 2019/2020 .

How to Do The BECE / SHS Self Placement

Here are the steps to do the SHS self placement after purchasing the e-voucher, according to the Ghana Education Service (GES). After purchasing the e voucher as stated above, do the following.

Visit CSSPS website at cssps.org or cssps.gov.gh
Select check placement module on the page to continue the process
Provide your e-voucher PIN and Index Number (i.e after successful purchase in the steps above) and click on enter.
You will be redirected to the self-placement module.
Here, you’ll be provided with a selection of schools to pick from based on your aggregate. Choose your desired school as well as your residential preference (day/boarding).
Finally, click on Confirm and print changes.

Detailed Guide To Do The BECE /SHS placement Self Placement

Visit CSSPS website at cssps.org or cssps.gov.gh

BECE-SHS-CSSPS-placement-Homepage

Select check placement module on the page to continue the process
Provide your e-voucher PIN and Index Number and click the “PROCEED” button.

BECE SHS CSSPS Placement-checker

You will be redirected to the self-placement module.
Here, you’ll be provided with a selection of schools to pick from based on your aggregate. Choose your desired school as well as your residential preference (day/boarding).

Finally, click on Confirm and print your self placement form.

Check Our Detailed Guide With Images From The CSSPS Here

Here Is The BECE / SHS Placement Guidelines Released By Ghana Education Service (GES)

GES BECE SHS Self Placement

About The Previous Reopening Of The SHS School Placement

The Ghana Education Service (GES) initially reopened the Self-Placement Portal for a Second Chance of SHS School Placement on 11th September 2019.

A total of 122,706 candidates who qualified to enter the senior high schools, technical and vocational institutions but have not been placed, were given the chance to do self-placement.

By this system, a candidate who missed out on the placement under the Computerised School Selections Placement System (CSSPS) and is required to go to the self-placement platform on the cssps.gov.gh or cssps.org to select his or her preferred school from a list of schools provided.

The Head of the Public Relations Unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Cassandra Twum Ampofo, who spoke to the Daily Graphic explained that there were enough vacancies to be filled by all the candidates.

She was speaking on the aftermath of the placement of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates under the CSSPS in Accra yesterday (Monday September 9).

Candidates placed

A total of 490,000 candidates were expected to be placed, but 473,728 candidates qualified to be placed.

Explaining the differences, Ms Ampofo said the number was reduced to the 473,728 because some of the candidates, even though they scored good grades, had grade nine in either Mathematics or English Language.

She said in a situation such as that, the affected candidate would be required to go back and rewrite those subjects in order to qualify them to be placed.

Disqualified

Ms Ampofo said a total of 38,355 of the candidates were disqualified because they got grade nine in Mathematics or English or both and that disqualified them from being placed.

She explained that just as what happened last year, all those who were disqualified would be sponsored by the government to rewrite those papers and would not be required to pay for the resit.

She, therefore, called on all those who had grade nine in either English or Mathematics or whose grades were such that they could not be placed, to take advantage of the opportunity to go back to their former schools and get enrolled for the BECE next year.

Breakdown

Giving a breakdown of the placement of candidates under the CSSPS, Ms Ampofo said 83,053 of the candidates were placed in the single-track schools.

She said 138,053 were placed in the Green Track, while 129,916 of them were placed in the Gold Track, thus bringing the total number of candidates placed so far to 351,022, out of the 473,728.

Solution Centres

Ms Ampofo explained that those who had challenges with the placement exercise could visit the nearest solution centre to get their concerns addressed.

She said a total of ten such centres had been set up throughout the country to address the concerns of people so they need not to travel to Accra to get their concerns addressed.

In Accra, the solution centre is at the Black Star Square, in the Volta and Oti regions, the centre is at Mawuli, while in the Ashanti Region, it is located at the Kumasi Technical Institute.

Others are in the Bono, Bono East, and the Ahafo regions, with the centre at the GES regional office in Sunyani, while the Western and the Western North, it is at the GES regional office in Takoradi.

In the Central Region, the centre is located at the GES regional office, Cape Coast, while the Eastern, Upper West and Upper East, have their centres at the GES regional offices of Koforidua, Wa and Bolgatanga. The centre for the Northern, North East and Savanna is located at the GES Office in Tamale.