A publication in Tuesday 1st October edition of the Ghanaian Times indicated that 182,000 candidates who sat for the 2013 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) did not pass the core subjects and therefore could not be placed in any of the public Senior High Schools (SHSs).
These students failed in at least one of the core subjects: Mathematics, English language, Social Studies, and Integrated Science and obtained grade 7 and above instead of the required passing grade of between one and six.
However, speaking on the �Kokrokoo� Morning Show on Peace FM, National Coordinator of the Computerised School Selection Placement System (CSSPS), George Atta-Boateng, debunked the publication.
According to him, even though the computer might not place the 182, 000 students, there are still some secondary and technical schools that are available to absorb them.
�It is not true...392,000 students wrote the exam and based on the Computer placement policy, 218,000 have been placed in various Senior High Schools but that doesn�t mean that the 182 people have failed...Sometimes there are schools that even admits the students who do not get placed by the computer especially those who failed in one core subjects but had pass the rest of the subjects,� he asserted.
Asked why students who fail in most of the subjects don�t have the opportunity of rewriting them, he said: �the students have a chance to rewrite but most often they feel ashamed to go back to their previous school to take those papers again�.
According to him, there is also another option of writing in another school other than their (students) original school �but no one has opted for it so far.�
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