In education , an entrance examination or admission examination is an examination that educational institutions conduct to select prospective students . It may be held at any stage of education, from primary to tertiary , even though it is typically held at tertiary stage.
8-565: District Selection Committee , known as DSC , is an entrance examination by the state governments in India for recruitment of teachers. All the Bachelor of Education or B.Ed. graduates are eligible to take the test. The AP government takes 20% marks from Teachers Eligibility Test or TET. The government comes out with the notification for the vacant seats every year. and the state government gives 80% weight to DSC and 20% to TET. In 1998,
16-581: A country where many different boards are present common entrances are essential, but application skills rather than cramming should be stressed on. Frequent changes in the pattern of examination are essential since sticking to a 'standard text' or 'standard pattern' alone will favour the coaching industry and the rote-learners . Entrance Examinations in India trace their roots to the University of Calcutta , which when established in 1857, introduced
24-480: A competitive entrance examination or other aptitude test . According to the Schools Minister, "strong evidence has been emerging of grade inflation across subjects" in recent years. Due to the presence of COVID-19 in many countries which embraced school closures either on state or national scale, some entrance examinations for high schools were eventually cancelled to reduce the stress of students and
32-432: A hundred can hope to get admission- to state entrance examinations, which are many and varied. The stiff competition has led to a situation where many students neglect their school studies and focus solely on ' entrance coaching ' which is time-consuming and expensive. This has led many states to scrap the entrances and base admissions on the school leaving marks which, are none too reliable. Experts point out that in
40-590: Is also an entrance examination in order to enter medicine studies. Grandes écoles of engineering and grandes écoles of business are some other examinations, to prepare for which students are studying two years in Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles . In India , entrance examinations are chiefly confined to medicine , engineering , and management. These range from the BITSAT and the IIT-JEE -where less than one in
48-580: The culmination of secondary and higher secondary education, have standardized final examinations, referred to as the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination after grade 10 (class X) and the Higher Secondary Examination (HSC) after grade 12th. A few British universities have lost confidence in the grades that are awarded by secondary schools, and require a few applicants to sit for
56-512: The government merged Panchayat Raj and government teacher cadres for uniform selection for all government-run schools. Entrance examination In France , the Concours Général, taken in the last year of High School ( Lycée ), is considered to be particularly difficult with only 250 places in all subjects for 15,000 applicants. This is although not an examination because it is purely honorary and doesn't grant anything. There
64-537: The practice to decide eligibility for admission. In that exam, one student qualified for every four candidates. In the absence of a standardized school graduation examination, the University's entrance examinations were used as a substitute, known later as Matriculation examinations. Post-independence, India has different systems of education whose syllabus and examination process are governed by both central and state-based statutory boards. Grades 10 and 12 which mark
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