CSSPS placement guide

CSSPS is the Computerised School Selection and Placement System. The Ghana Education Service uses it to place BECE candidates into senior high schools and technical institutes. GLearn is exam prep. It does not run CSSPS, it does not see your placement, and it cannot change one.

How placement works

You choose schools and, for each one, a programme and whether you want day or boarding. CSSPS then matches candidates to those choices. The match looks at your BECE aggregate and your raw scores, at the schools and programmes you listed, and at how many places those programmes still have.

There is no single published cut off that sends everyone with a given aggregate to a given school. The Ministry of Education has said placement is not a rigid aggregate score system. A popular programme can have more candidates than vacancies, so two people with the same aggregate can land in different schools. When they chose the same school, the same programme and the same residential option, raw scores are what separate them. The raw score is the mark behind the grade.

Some candidates are placed automatically. Others are not, and the official portal then offers self placement: you choose a school that still has a vacancy. Both steps happen on the government portal, not on GLearn. Before placement is run, confirm your schools and programmes on that portal. If a detail is wrong, that is where you report it.

How to check your placement

Wait until the Ghana Education Service or the Ministry of Education says placement is out. GLearn does not announce it and does not hold the list.
Open the official portal at cssps.gov.gh/hub. Use that address. A page that asks you to pay is not the checker.
Sign in with your 10 digit BECE index number followed by the last two digits of the year you sat, and with your date of birth. The portal shows the pattern on the sign in page.
Read the school, the programme, and whether the place is day or boarding. You can print the placement slip from the portal. Schools use that slip as the admission confirmation.
If you were not placed automatically, use self placement on the same portal and choose a school that still has a vacancy.
Checking on the official portal is free. Do not pay a person or a website that says they can place you, or that they can reveal the school early.

How to choose schools

List schools you would actually attend. For each school, the programme and day or boarding are part of the choice, not a detail you can fix later. Put the list in the order you prefer. CSSPS tries to match you to those choices. It cannot offer a school you left off the list.

Match the programme to what you want to study. A place in a school on a programme you do not want is still the placement the system made from your list. The guide to choosing an SHS programme says what each programme is for.
Think about where the school is, and whether you can board or you need a day place. Residential status is one of the things the match uses.
Include schools you would be glad to attend, not only the most famous ones. A programme lots of people want can fill up. GLearn does not rank schools and does not publish how many places each one has.
Confirm the finished list on the official CSSPS portal before placement runs.

How an aggregate relates to placement

An aggregate adds six BECE grades. The four cores are English Language, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. Science is the paper some notes call Integrated Science. Then add the two best grades from the subjects that are left. Each grade is a number from 1 to 9, and 1 is the strongest, so a lower total is a stronger result. The strongest possible total is 6 and the weakest is 54, because that is what six grades from 1 to 9 can add up to. Those two numbers are the ends of the scale. They are not cut offs for any school.

CSSPS uses that total together with raw scores, your choices, and vacancies. A stronger aggregate improves your position in the match. It does not reserve a named school, and a school percentage on a class test is not a BECE grade. Work the total out from the grades on the result, on the BECE aggregate calculator.

The grades themselves come from the BECE. WAEC sets and marks that exam. When the result is out, check it on the WAEC checker, which the BECE results guide points to. GLearn does not check the result and does not check the placement.

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Placement reads the BECE. The work that can move an aggregate is practice on the subjects in it. On GLearn, Kevin marks the answer and explains why.

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What is CSSPS?

CSSPS is the Computerised School Selection and Placement System. Ghana uses it to place BECE candidates into senior high schools and technical institutes. You choose schools and programmes. CSSPS matches those choices to your BECE performance and to the vacancies in the schools.

How do I check my SHS placement?

On the official portal at cssps.gov.gh/hub. Sign in with your 10 digit BECE index number followed by the last two digits of the year you sat, and your date of birth. You can view and print the placement slip there. Checking on that portal is free. GLearn cannot show your placement.

Does my aggregate decide the school on its own?

No. CSSPS uses the aggregate and the raw scores, the schools and programmes you chose, whether you asked for day or boarding, and how many places those programmes still have. A lower aggregate is stronger, and it is not a ticket to one named school.

Is there a cut off aggregate for each school?

The Ministry of Education has said placement is not a rigid aggregate score system. Two candidates with the same aggregate can be separated by raw scores when they chose the same school, programme and residential option. GLearn does not publish cut off numbers. A fixed list would not be how the match works.

What if I am not placed automatically?

The official portal has a self placement step for candidates who were not placed automatically. You choose a school that still has a vacancy. Stay on cssps.gov.gh. Do not pay anyone who offers to place you.

Can GLearn change my placement?

No. GLearn is exam prep. It does not check a placement, store one, or change one. Practise the BECE here if you want to prepare for the aggregate. Kevin explains every answer.

How placement works

How to check your placement

Wait until the Ghana Education Service or the Ministry of Education says placement is out. GLearn does not announce it and does not hold the list.

Open the official portal at cssps.gov.gh/hub. Use that address. A page that asks you to pay is not the checker.

Sign in with your 10 digit BECE index number followed by the last two digits of the year you sat, and with your date of birth. The portal shows the pattern on the sign in page.

Read the school, the programme, and whether the place is day or boarding. You can print the placement slip from the portal. Schools use that slip as the admission confirmation.

If you were not placed automatically, use self placement on the same portal and choose a school that still has a vacancy.

Checking on the official portal is free. Do not pay a person or a website that says they can place you, or that they can reveal the school early.

How to choose schools

Match the programme to what you want to study. A place in a school on a programme you do not want is still the placement the system made from your list. The guide to choosing an SHS programme says what each programme is for.

Think about where the school is, and whether you can board or you need a day place. Residential status is one of the things the match uses.

Include schools you would be glad to attend, not only the most famous ones. A programme lots of people want can fill up. GLearn does not rank schools and does not publish how many places each one has.

Confirm the finished list on the official CSSPS portal before placement runs.

How an aggregate relates to placement

CSSPS questions

What is CSSPS?

How do I check my SHS placement?

Does my aggregate decide the school on its own?

Is there a cut off aggregate for each school?

What if I am not placed automatically?

Can GLearn change my placement?

No. GLearn is exam prep. It does not check a placement, store one, or change one. Practise the BECE here if you want to prepare for the aggregate. Kevin explains every answer.