The John Mahama government has reverted to old school selection system for 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates.
BECE candidates are now expected to choose preferred schools before they sit for exams like they used to be in the past.
The BECE school selection and placement process for candidates of 2025 officially began yesterday Tuesday, May 27, and will end on Friday, June 6.
Coordinator of the Free SHS (FSHS) Secretariat, Sena Okity-Duah at a news conference revealed that teams will be deployed across the country to conduct sensitisation activities aimed at guiding candidates, parents, and school authorities on the new selection procedures.
The new guidelines strictly prohibit BECE candidates from selecting more than one Category A school and not more than two from Category B.
Five Schools can be selected with at least three being boarding schools while the remaining two should be day schools.
She stated, “Candidates are required to select seven schools in total, five main choices and two alternatives and these must be done in order of preference”.
“Once a candidate is placed in a selected school, that choice cannot be changed,” Madam Okity-Duah emphasized.
“The school selection form must be signed by a parent or guardian and submitted to the headmaster of the candidate’s junior high school. Parents must also keep a copy of the completed form for reference,” she added.
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