Beyond the ENTER - new/added methods of selection for uni

[brendan]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22674746-25192,00.html

For undergraduate medicine there is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate_Medicine_and_Health_Sciences_Admission_Test
For graduate law schools there is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSAT
For graduate medical schools there is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAMSAT
For graduate business schools there is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMAT

In the future there might be an added general aptitude test called the "uniTEST"
http://www.acer.edu.au/enews/0706_aptitude.html
http://unitest.acer.edu.au/
http://www.unitest.org.uk/uniTEST_2006_Phase_Two_Initial_Report.pdf

Then there is also the use of the GAT by Monash University:
http://www.monash.edu.au/news/newsline/story/1182
http://www.vtac.edu.au/pdf/bulletins/GATandMiddleband.pdf

[Benny]

The 'general aptitude test' reminds me of how one of my lecturers told us about how melbourne used to have these entrance tests (way before there was an adequate system to test high school students). There was a question which was something like 'simplify (100!/99!) and someone wrote 'e' haha (presumably from entering the quotient of factorials into their calculator).

[brendan]

News just in:
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22692818-910,00.html
"STUDENTS next year may have a second chance to get into their university course of choice if they fail to gain enough points in their Year 12 results.

Flinders University is one of several considering using an aptitude test for entry next year in a national trial that could assist up to 20,000 students who otherwise would miss out.

Deputy vice-chancellor Professor Andrew Parkin said reasoning and thinking skills, necessary for successful university study, would be tested.

"We've always been a uni that's trying to find different ways people can show they have an aptitude for university study," he said."