How to Calculate BECE Grades 2023 – Step by Step

Want to know how to calculate your BECE grades? Then stay with me as I take you through the simple steps on how to calculate your BECE grades.

The BECE Grades Calculation is used to assess students’ academic performance in the BECE.

GES uses the BECE Grades Score to place Junior High School (JHS) graduates into Senior High School (SHS).

The Ghana Education Service (GES) places students in different Senior High Schools (SHS) across Ghana based on their BECE grades using the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).

How To Calculate BECE Grades

Check the new flexible 9-scale criterion-referenced grading system and match your raw score to the marks on the chart after checking your BECE Grades and knowing the percentage in hand.

Then, using the 1 to 9 grading system, compare it to the corresponding grade and proceed to the calculation section below.

BECE Grading System Interpretation

HIGHEST – 1 (A1)

HIGHER – 2 (B2)

HIGH – 3 (B3)

HIGH AVERAGE – 4 (C4)

AVERAGE – 5 (C5)

LOW AVERAGE – 6 (C6)

LOW – 7 (D7)

LOWER – 8 (E8)

LOWEST – 9 (F9)

How To Calculate BECE Grades

BECE Grades are computed by taking the six best subjects from your BECE results.

Assuming you had the BECE grades listed below, here’s how to calculate your BECE results:

ENGLISH LANGUAGE      2
SOCIAL STUDIES             1
REL.& MORAL EDUC.      2
MATHEMATICS                2
INTEGRATED SCIENCE     1
INFO. & COMM.TECH.     3
FRENCH                           1
B.D.T./HOME ECONOMICS       1

How To Calculate

Initially, you have to choose the best two of your electives which are; RME, ICT, BDT, and French. With the Core subjects (Maths, English, Science, and Social Studies) are fixed.

From the results above, English Language + Social Studies + Mathematics + Integrated Science = 2+1+2+1= 6. Hence, the total for the Core subjects is 6.

You have to choose your best two subjects from the electives. So, from the results above the best two elective subjects are French and BDT. So, this implies that; ICT + BDT = 1+1= 2, the total for the elective subjects is 2.

Now to calculate your overall aggregate for the result above we add the total of the Core subjects and that of the elective subjects.

So, 6+2 = 8, this means that the final BECE Aggregate for the result above is 8.

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