2025 BECE school selection to be done before the exam

There has been a change in the BECE registration procedure per  since the 2025 BECE school selection pahse will be done before the exam per the release from the Ghana Education Service.

While in the recent past, BECE candidates have selected schools after writing the examination, effective 2025, all parents will assist their candidates in selecting their schools ahead of the examination.

The 2025 BECE has been scheduled to be held from 9th June to 16th June, 2025; however, the school selection phase, which is the final section of the registration, will start on 5th May and end on 31st May, 2025.

This means that parents and students must be guided in their school selection. School selections must be made based on the academic strength of the candidate and not mere tastes and preferences of learners and their parents.

Prior to 2017, BECE candidates were selecting schools before the examination. This change is only a reversal of the process to the orgianl way of carrying out the BECE registration.

If the school’s selection is not done objectively, there is a high chance many over-exuberant parents and students will end up being disappionted.

Parents are cautioned to be extra careful in choosing schools they know too well their wards cannot attain given their academics. In the past, more than 5,000 students have chosen schools only for the school to place about 500 students out of the applications.

Since the school placement is going to be based on the performance of candidates in the BECE and the competition other students who chose the same school pose, it is important that schools and teachers explain to candidates and parents how the wrong choices will affect their chances of being placed.

Candidates who will be targeting overly prescribed schools in May 2025 must continue to study hard and make good grades throughout their mock examination as well as their final BECE to stand better chances of getting placed in Category A and B schools.

Parents should not force their selection on students and they must also seek advice from the teachers in making this critical irreversible choice before the final school selections are sent to WAEC by the end of May, 2025.

READ: See the 2025 BECE registration date, payment procedures and caution

The reintroduction of the BECE school selection before the exam means the process will be faster and completed at least 9 days before the examination. The schools candidates select must play a key motivating factor in their performance. This time students will not have the chance to use the exam as a factor to determine which schools they will choose; instead, the schools they choose must challenge them to work hard during the exam if they are to be placed in them.