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Whether or not to be the college entrance exam has been a long series this fall. Just a week ago, government coordinator Peter Honeth finally announced that the test will take place on October 25, but with restrictions.
Each institution of higher education has been given an upper limit on how many people can write the test on the spot, and a total of 27,600 people will be allowed to write the test nationwide. Just over half of those who wrote last fall.
Peter Honeth has previously announced that spots will be allocated according to a first come, first serve system. But now Ekot reports that even chance will play a decisive role.
The Danish IT system decides
The Swedish Council of Universities and Colleges, UHR, uses a Danish IT system that will be able to handle the large number of people who are expected to log in when registrations open tomorrow.
From seven o’clock a digital waiting room opens. At eight o’clock, when registration is formally opened, people in the waiting room are assigned a queue number. And it’s kind of a lottery that determines which place in the queue you get, Ekot reports.
– It will be possible to stand in a waiting room on Friday morning. And then you can make a raffle among those who want to write so that you get the number that we can take care of. I really think it’s better with the lottery. If I have to choose between two bad alternatives, I probably think the lottery is better. Because there will be some technical conditions that decide otherwise, for example, how good a broadband connection you have, which is worse than the lottery, says Peter Aronsson, rector of Linnaeus University and a member of the UHR board, to Ekot.
