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General news for Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Source: Starr FM
2020-09-22
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From Monday, September 21 to Saturday, October 31, those who have just completed the BECE will be selecting the SHS they would like to attend.
It is important to understand how placement works in schools.
Pay attention if you have a child, ward, or relative who is about to select their schools.
Placement
After the publication of the BECE results by WAEC, the placement process begins. Using the candidate’s total of her four core subjects (English, math, science, and social studies) plus the top two grades from her electives.
The vacancies previously declared by each school are incorporated into the CSSPS.
There are three ways in which placement is done in CSSPS:
-Automatic placement
-Self-placement
-Manual placement
A. Automatic placement:
This is the process by which CSSPS places students on merit in one of their chosen schools in descending order. This runs automatically without any manual intervention.
If the candidate’s total falls within the merit of the program chosen for their first choice, the CSSPS then verifies the student’s preferred residential status for the space and places it accordingly. If the desired residential status is complete, the CSSPS moves you to the second option.
For example, if a student with a total of 8 would get a place at school A but chose the most competitive boarding option and the space is full because other candidates with a better aggregate have secured a placement at the boarding house, then the system will not will place him or her in day status at that school because the DAY option was not the candidate’s choice.
The system will move to your second choice school to try to get both your program and your residential option. If unsuccessful, the system will proceed to its third option and so on. The process is repeated until the student is placed.
When a candidate has chosen a boarding school and as his or her mandatory day choice, if the system is unable to secure a boarding space for him or her, it will seek to place him or her during the day at that school.
Tie-breaker
When a school is oversubscribed for a particular program by students with similar aggregates, a tiebreaker system is used to determine placement.
me. The number of degrees one
For example, if 300 students with Aggregate Sixs compete for Science in School A and there are only 120 science slots available, the ranking will be done such that those with Nine Ones will gain admission, followed by those with Eight Ones, and so on. successively.
ii. Raw score
If there is still an additional need to break a tie, this will be done in descending order of the raw scores obtained.
iii. Subject performance
This will be followed by an additional tiebreaker, when necessary, with respect to core subjects;
-English, then
-Mathematics, then
-Integrated science, then
-Social studies.
Depending on the level of performance and therefore competition, it is possible for a candidate with a total of six to miss out on a highly competitive program in a highly competitive school and in a highly competitive residential state such as boarding school, in which case will be moved to your second choice for a possible location.
For example, if you choose the highly competitive science program at OWASS and miss it, you cannot come and ask that your program be changed to another program at OWASS.
Awareness-raising of school principals and other types of education has continued. Schools must guide parents in turn. Also, media involvement will begin soon.
Later today, we will discuss the self-placement system, and then some dos and don’ts regarding the school selection process.
B. SELF-PLACEMENT
In some cases, a student may not be successful in one place in any of their school options. Self-placement is a process that gives candidates the opportunity to log into the CSSPS portal and select from schools with available seats.
Features of self-placement
me. Only schools with available seats will be displayed on the portal.
ii. Schools with openings will be displayed for candidates to choose based on their total.
iii. Schools shown will have their location and residential options available
iv. Candidates can change schools as many times as possible depending on the available spaces. The opportunity to change CEASES immediately the candidate is enrolled in a school.
Process
The candidate will log into the system using their index number
The candidate will choose their residential preference, that is, day or boarding.
to. If a candidate chooses a boarding school, all schools with boarding seats will be displayed.
yes. If a candidate selects the day, there will be a drop-down menu for the candidate to select;
me. Day within the area of influence or
ii. Day outside the catchment area
C. The day within the catchment area shows only schools with seats per day within 10 miles of the high school the candidate attended.
re. The day out of catchment area shows all schools with day seats.
Before the day takes place outside the catchment area; the candidate must confirm again if she intends to attend school outside her area of influence as a day student.
The candidate can also select their preferred program.
Once they confirm from the list of available schools that they meet their preferences, the system places them at the school and they can print the location sheet and go to the school to enroll.
At all times, therefore, the candidate is in full control of where he chooses to place himself. In many cases, candidates leave the self-placement process to cyber café attendees, who then select a school without going to the candidate. The candidate then rushes to Independence Square to complain that the system has placed him in Mpraeso or Atebubu when he lives in Nungua, and with an attentive medium looking for scoops, this is a perfect CSSPS incompetence story. You push the candidate or parent and he / she admits they gave it to a cafeteria aide for processing and they left the cafeteria and came back later.
MORAL: Don’t outsource self-placement to café attendants. Follow / monitor the process.
FREQUENT QUESTIONS
1. I missed all of my 5 options. What should I do?
Candidates who lose all of their options may still have the opportunity to select schools with available seats through the self-placement process described above.
2. Can a candidate with good grades lose his first, second, or all of his options?
YES. All spaces in schools are competitively filled based on available spaces in the school (i.e., preferred residential status and program of choice). Therefore, qualified candidates are ranked from highest score to lowest and will be cut when spaces are exhausted.
They are then transferred to the next school of their choice to compete for space there, and the process continues further down the chain.
3. Is it possible that someone with a total of 7 does not have access to a particular school, but someone with a total of 10 can enter the same school?
YES. Selected programs and residential status may differ from candidate to candidate. Therefore, the competition for slots may differ. For example, in most cases, science is more competitive than other programs and internship is more competitive than day status.
4. A candidate with Attachment 10 was placed in a particular program and residential status and another with Attachment 8 did not, even though they chose the same program and residential status. How is this possible
There is a protocol system that allocates 5% of the declared spaces of a school to the school for subsequent allocation to its stakeholders. Therefore, it is possible that the child of a former student or a member of the staff of a school will be admitted before another child who wishes to enter the same school. Other stakeholders include the missions and traditional seats of the corresponding school.
Talented children, such as athletic boys and girls, may also be considered by a school for some of its protocol spaces. Similarly, 30% of the slots in the 55 best schools in the country have been reserved for public JHS candidates. As such, candidates from elementary public schools across the country are vying for the 30% space. Therefore, the competition for 60% is different from the competition for 30%.
5. Is it possible for someone who did not choose a particular school to be placed in that school?
NO. It is not possible during the automatic placement process. However, a candidate can obtain a placement in a school through protocol.
6. Can a person change schools after enrollment?
No. The placement process ends once the candidate begins the admissions process by going to the school to complete the appropriate form. Any movement from one school to another after enrollment is considered a transfer. A student can only transfer after one academic year.
7. Can a person change residential status or program after placement?
NO. A candidate entered a particular school on merit based on the preferred program and the residential status they chose. A candidate competes for a position at a particular school based on the preferences provided. Therefore, neither the residential status nor the program can be changed.
8. Can I change a school that I selected through autonomous placement?
YES. A candidate who was placed in a school by self-placement can change schools on the portal once the candidate has not enrolled in a school.
9. I selected and was placed in a school that was on my school choice list. Can I change schools?
NO. You cannot transfer to another school, if the school was part of your five options.
10. Can I enroll in a school when my representative or I are not present?
NO. For enrollment to be successful, the school will need the student’s unique ID, parent / guardian address details, and phone number. Once a candidate or parent / guardian submits their forms to the assigned school, the school uses the information provided on the forms to enroll the candidate. Therefore, it is not possible for a school to obtain all of this personal information from a candidate without the candidate or a representative being present at the school.
11. I was enrolled in a school but my name is no longer in their system. What can be done?
If in fact a candidate was enrolled in a particular school, but the details can no longer be found in the school system, the school principal will formally inform the appropriate office to obtain a repair. Students should not be sent home.
12. Does the principal of the school I want my child / ward to go to say there is space at the school? Can the child be placed there on this base?
NO. Schools have established ways to communicate with authorities. Placement is made on the basis of vacancies declared by the schools. Once CSSPS has filled those seats at that school, we will not be able to make any more placements at the school.
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