Consortium: Direct uni admissions to continue
SIRIKUL BUNNAG & APIRADEE TREERUTKUARKUL
The Consortium of Thai Medical Schools has announced medical student applicants will not sit the Aptitude Test to be introduced in two years under revised central university admission criteria. The consortium voiced concern that the Aptitude Test, to be launched in 2010 and making up half the admission system's scores, will not be effective in screening medical students.
The consortium currently designs its own exam system for medical student applicants, who are directly enrolled by individual universities.
It was thought the proposed replacement of the existing Advanced National Education Test (A-Net) for specialised subjects in the university admission system with the Aptitude Test in 2010 could make the consortium change its mind and adopt the Aptitude Test.
The consortium, however, expressed concern about the proposed Aptitude Test's effectiveness in testing potential students' levels of moral ethics as well as academic and analytical abilities.
Awut Srisukri, the consortium secretary-general, said the consortium would prefer to stick to the direct enrolment system for medical students mainly because of concern about the quality of the Aptitude Test.
''Frankly speaking, we're not very confident about the Aptitude Test,'' said Dr Awut.
Apart from Aptitude Test, 30% of the admission score will come from the Ordinary National Education Test (O-Net) and the remaining 20% from the GPAX, or cumulative grade point average individual students accrue during their upper high school years.
At present, the admission score for medical student applicants is 70% A-Net and 30% moral and analytical tests. The consortium is also worried about possible confusion if the test is switched to the Aptitude Test, Dr Awut said citing problems from changing the traditional university entrance exam to the O-Net and A-Net system in 2006.
Mistakes in marking the O-Net test papers in the past had marred the reputation of the test system and triggered complaints from students.
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