How to Gain Admission to Best SHS with Good BECE Grades

How to gain admission to best SHS with good BECE grades has eluded many students including very brilliant ones each year.

BECE grades to gain admission to the best SHS in Ghana must be of interest to all students who will sit for the 2020 examination come June 2020.

To gain admission to the best SHS in Ghana has never been based on luck, not even after the government had introduced the Free SHS.

This means all things held constant students must make very good grades as well as obtain high raw scores to stand any chance of gaining admission to one of the best dream schools at the SHS level.

Wesley Girls High School, PRESEC Legon, Augustine’s College, Opoku Ware School, Peter’s Boys Senior High School, Accra Academy, Prempeh College, Holy Child School, Keta Senior Technical School, and Mfantsipm School are household names when the best Senior High Schools are mentions.

To gain admission to the best SHS in Ghana is a dream come true for many how over others have failed to achieve this feat because of their raw scores.

Since such schools stand tall, every student who wants to gain admission must achieve that by merit. To make it to one of these ten best SHS in Ghana, a student must very often make very good grades with a raw score of 450 out of 600 to have an excellent chance.

This raw score of 450 implies a student should score an average of 75 out of 100 per subject. Thus a student’s grade per the four core subjects plus any two best should help make the raw score since the raw score is the basis of admission and not the grade obtained.

Another way of gaining admission to any of the ten best schools is to make the right choice in terms of the program a student intends to study at the SHS.

For instance, if a student who intends to study Visual Arts or General Arts obtains a raw score between 380 and 450, he or she stands a better chance to gain admission than a Business or Science Student with the same raw score.

This is one of the explanations why some students make good grades but are unable to gain admission to certain schools but another makes a comparatively lower grade and gains admission.

From all indications, the fact is that BECE grades to gain admission to the best SHS in Ghana demands hard work and the selection of the right program.

There are brilliant students who just want to gain admission to the best schools no matter the subject. For such students, they opt for Visual Arts or General arts which are not low-grade programs in any way however, such programs have the tendency to increase the chances of gaining admission.

We hope the write up gives you a better idea of what to do to obtain the needed BECE grades to gain admission to best SHS in Ghana.

32 thoughts on “How to Gain Admission to Best SHS with Good BECE Grades

  1. I am a student of Uthmania Islamic JHS at Adabraka in the Ashanti region of Ghana. I am a candidate preparing towards Bece 2020. Though my school does not do well in the Basic Education Certificate Examination, l am trying my best to make my teachers proud. l want to offer science at Opoku Ware SHS. I am working hard to help in my nation Ghana. I know I will make my teachers as well as everybody happy. Thank you

  2. Hello, I am a learner at Bright Future International School at Adiebeba in the Ashanti Region.I am a candidate preparing towards the Basic Education Certificate Examination this year.I am a little nervous because I want to get the school of my choice, Presby Boys’ Secondary School and offer General Arts. Because of that I have been working hard because I don’t want to disappoint my parents and my school at large . So as of now I am still doing all that I have to do in order to write the BECE and come out with flying colours. And I am positive I will make it and be able to serve my country Ghana.

  3. God help us all to reach our expectations. I’m also a final year student toiling to persue science at Archbishop Porter girls. I’m from Obuasi.

  4. God help us all to reach our expectations. I’m also a final year student toiling to persue science at Archbishop Porter girls. I’m from Obuasi.I will be very if my aspirations are not jeopardized

  5. I am Afiako Gatine a year 3 student of sandema preparatory jhs. As a candidate of the 2021 bece I am moving ahead to pursue science at the Presbyterian boys secondary school. May God bless us all.Thank you.

  6. I’m a student CEPS, who wants to treat General Arts or Bussiness in PRESEC. But I want to know the careers in the course. I am also in dilemma either to do business or General arts. Hope you help me. My name is Emmanuel Kabutey Osah. Thank you.

  7. Hello,my name is Abuliga Richmond,I’m from Bongo I’m a BECE candidate and I’m working hard to make my school and Ghana at large proud.My goal is to get prempeh collage and offer science.Even dou I have a fracture on my leg,I know I can still make it by God’s grace.I will make Bongo Beo R/C proud.

  8. I’m praying that I will get to odorgono because am trying my best n I learned hard I pray that I will be there by the almighty God Amen 🙏🙏

  9. Hello.please I want to know the raw score to gain entry to Ghana National college.I am a student preparing for bece2021

  10. Am a proud student who wrote bece this year 2021.My parents and I are very sad because they all thought I was a very brilliant student which they wanted to get a good results from me .when I went to check the results l had grade 16 and I offered general art at St Louis shs please do u think that their dream will be abolish 😭😫 I wrote my exams at Bayere-Nkwanta D/A jhs

  11. Sewornu Clifford is my name and i am a BECE graduate as well from st. Anthony R/C jhs.All i want is to get a better grade and come out with flying colours in other to proceed to one of the best senior high school. After all getting opoku ware will be a dream come true and as well fufill my parents vous i have made to them.

  12. Sewornu Clifford is my name and i am a BECE graduate as well from st.anthony’sR/C jhs kwamo in thé Ashanti Region. All i want is to get a better grade and come out with flying colours in other to proceed to one of the best senior high school. After all getting opoku ware will be a dream come true and as well as fuffiling the vows i made to my parents.

  13. Please, I am Bright Jireh, I obtained the following grades in my BECE:
    Eng 2,
    Social Studies 1,
    Rme 1,
    Maths 2,
    Integrated Science 1,
    Fante 2,
    ICT 2,
    BDT 1.

    Please, what is my total grade point? What will be my raw score? Am I likely to get my first choice?

    Finally, when will the placement be released?

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