The Ghana Education Service (GES) has refuted claims circulating on social media, suggesting that specific cut-off points determine school placements.
According to the Service, the placement process is guided primarily by the raw scores obtained by candidates in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Additional factors considered include the level of subscription to a particular school, the competitiveness of the programme of choice, the candidate's aggregate, residential preference, and catchment area considerations.
In a Facebook post on August 29, 2025, GES stressed that the idea of fixed cut-off points has no basis in the placement system and described such claims as 'misleading'. "It is important to emphasise that the notion of fixed cut-off points is misleading and has no basis in the placement process.
