This year’s school placement for 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates will be released on Sunday, 28 February 2021.

A total of 494,530 candidates qualified to be placed out of 533,693 registered candidates.

343,264 candidates have automatically been placed in one of the schools of their choice.

However 151,266 qualified candidates could not match any of their choices thus the Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed such students to “to do self-placement to select from available schools.”

In a statement issued by the Ghana Education Service (GES) and signed by its Head of the Public Relations Unit, Cassandra Twum Ampofo, the Service said: “To access the placement platform, candidates are to obtain a placement pin code from an approved vendor, log onto the site www.cssps.gov.gh, enter the 10-digit index number and add 20 as year of completion.”

It also directed candidates who have been placed, to print the form and submit it at the school of placement to begin the admission process.

The statement continued that: “If a student is not matched with any of their choices from the automatic placement system, they will be redirected to the self-placement portal.

“From the portal, select a school by providing the region, residential preference, school, programme of choice, click on submit, print the form and visit the school to begin admission process.”

Also, schools selected on the self-placement portal could be changed as many times as the candidate wished until they are enrolled in a school.

The GES also assured students especially “those who could not be matched with their choices during the automatic placement, parents and the general public that all schools with vacancies have been uploaded on the portal for students to select from during self-placement without hitches.”

It added that “the National Solution Centre will not be set up this year due to COVID-19.

“Instead, the GES Call Centre will be active to receive complaints and concerns.”

It therefore directed candidates, parents and guardians with complaints and concerns to call 0900800700 and 0302987654.