Ahead of the release of the 2025 BECE results and the school placements, have you asked yourself how the BECE School Placement Raw Score is calculated? Knowing how to do this as a parents, teachers, and students will prepare you you for the BECE 2025 result and school placement.
In this explanatory post, we will attempt to answer the question…How is the School Placement Raw Score Calculated? The answers provided will help students and parents.
The Ghana Education Service (GES) places candidates in schools through the (CSSPS) using the student’s raw scores obtained in the examination.
What is School Placement Raw Score?
The BECE School Placement Raw Score is the summation of the raw scores of a candidate from the four core subjects plus raw scores from two other best subject.
Thus the actual score or mark obtained in a subjects at the BECE are considered to arrive at the final raw score.
The total School Placement Raw Score for a student is the addition of all raw scores of the student’s best six subjects, thus 4 core subjects plus the best two from the rest.
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How is your grade for each subject determined?
Each grade a student gets is determined based on the range in which the student’s raw score is found.
90-100 = (1) Highest
80-89 = (2) Higher
70-79 = (3) High
60-69 = (4) High Average
55-60 = (5) Average
50-54 = (6) Low Average
40-49 = (7) Low
35-39 = (8) Lower
0-34 = F (9)
Now, for example, if you scored 71 in Mathematics, your raw grade for that subject is 3 (High). You can notice that there are several scores between the 70-79 = (3) High grade.
School Placement Raw Score for 2021 BECE: How do we calculate?
For GES to determine who actually performed better and place students fairly, all the Raw Scores of the subject grades added to get your final aggregate will be added to get your total Raw Score.
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Once your raw score for the best six subjects is determined, your raw score will compete with others who performed better than you and want to be placed in the same school.
The School Placement Raw Score for 2021 BECE is the sum of the actual marks obtained for the 4 core subjects and the 2 best grades from the remaining courses.
For example, below are the grades and raw scores obtained by KOFI MENSAH in the 2025 BECE.
Subject Raw Score/100 Grade
English Language 72 2*
Mathematics 81 1*
Integrated Science 64 4*
Social Studies 79 1*
Computing 82 1*
Ghanaian Language 62 4
Religious and Moral Education 76 1
Creative Arts and Design 98 1*
French 71 2
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The Aggregate based on Kofi Mensah’s result:
The aggregate of English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies (EMSS) + TWO OTHER BEST thus Creative Arts and Design and Computing is (2+1+4+1+1+1) = 10
The raw scores for Kofi Mensah
Total Raw Score is = (72+81+64+79+82+98) = 394
This is the raw score that will most likley determine whether a candidate is placed or not, the school he or she is finally placed in as well as the programme offered. A low raw score means less chance of being placed in category A and B schools.
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It is the raw score of 394 which will be considered when placing such a candidate in a school of choice and not his or her aggregate 10 grade.