Now that the GES has released the school placement checkers for sale, all 2023 graduates with an aggregate of 25–48 should get ready for likely self-placement instead of automatic placement.
Although not all of the students in this range of aggregates from their 2023 BECE will be doing self-placement, the chances of being asked to do self-placement are high if you are a candidate who chose your first school from Category A and the next two schools from Category B.
Very often, once you miss these school choices, the chances of being placed in a Category C school are very high.
You will agree with us that the GES will not place you in any of the first three schools if there are other students with good grades and raw scores who also chose such schools. It is even possible for students who make better grades than aggregate 25 to also do self-placement.
At the same time, it is also possible for a student with an aggregate between 25 and 48 to be placed automatically in one of his or her school choices.
Whatever the case, note that two candidates with the same grades or different grades who choose different schools will face different competitions to get placed in the school of their choice.
Candidates and parents are also to note that they are to add 23 to the student’s index number. The 23 means the candidate sat the 2023 BECE administered by WAEC from August 7th to 11th, 2023.
How to be smart ahead of school placement and get ready for self placement
- Take your school selection booklet and select five schools from category C.
- Arrange the schools based on your preference.
- Identify the main programme you want to study at the SHS and list two of them. This should be related to your future career choice. Do not forget the accommodation choice. However, remember that most schools in the self-placement module are going to be day schools. So check and do self-placement early, and get a good school from the self-placement module if you are not placed.
- Go to the cafe or check your placement on a laptop or a desktop. Using mobile phones and doing self-placement is very difficult.
- If you check your placement and you are not placed, quickly check for the schools you selected prior to checking your placement and use the list to check if those schools are available.
By following the above, you will be proactive and smart. This will make it easier and less stressful to use the self-placement module, unless all the schools you chose are not available in the self-placement module.
What are the four classes of students after the school placement has been released?
The student groups are as follows:
1. Automatically placed candidates Out pof this, 99% are not likely to be changed by the GES/MoE unless they are protocol placements or have problems.
2. The second batch are students who will be using self-placement
3. Candidates who were not placed in any school and cannot do the self-placement because they obtained Grade 9 in either mathematics or integrated science
4. Candidates whose results have been cancelled or withheld. There is no placement for such students.
We hope this article has been very informative and has provided you with a smart way to get ready for the release of placements and self-placement.
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Thanks for your update
the list of categories of the various schools in Ghana and how you can be able to check them using your phone for that particular purpose . the placement for the direct school is very good