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She is preparing for two college entrance exams this spring, with a lower age limit. Stock Photography.
Despite the pandemic, he is preparing for two college exams this spring. For the first time, there will be a lower age limit for writing the exam.
Also in the coming years, there will be an age limit for test writers.
Today, the government makes decisions that carry two restrictions linked to the university entrance exam: an age limit of less than 19 years and a limited number of examiners.
The cause is, of course, the corona pandemic. The tests must be able to be performed infectiously.
When the pandemic broke out last spring, the college entrance exam had to be canceled. The fall test could be completed after many trips, but with a limited number of participants. Therefore, the government wants two exams to take place next spring semester, so that as many people as possible have the opportunity to take the exam.
70,000 proposal
National coordinator Peter Honeth has investigated what is required for the two exams to be viable and it is his proposal for number and age restrictions that forms the basis of the government’s decision on amendments to the Higher Education Ordinance, so that the restrictions can be implemented.
Honeth has proposed a maximum limit of 35,000 test printers for each spring test, for a total of 70,000.
– There is a number that is in the same district as the number registered for the last spring test. But what the upper limit will be, the authority (University and College Council, editor’s note) will have to take a position on the future. We now give them a lot of flexibility and a lot of time to handle this, says Higher Education Minister Matilda Ernkrans (S).
She emphasizes that the infection situation is serious but that no one can predict what the situation will be like in March, when the first spring test will be written.
– We really are at a time when nothing is as usual. We must be prepared to have flexibility.
Reasonable balance
The 19-year-old age limit is justified by the fact that the youngest can be left behind for those who will soon drop out or have already left upper secondary school and are therefore eligible for higher education.
– The government believes that this is a reasonable compensation when we are in a pandemic. Restrictions are required, says Matilda Ernkrans, adding that those who are under the age of 19, but are in their senior year of high school, can also sign up for the test.
It also states that there is already a decision to have an 18-year age limit for testing starting in 2022, and that decision remains. The decision was made in 2018 with the motivation that young people should focus on their high school grades first and that the college entrance exam should be seen more as a second chance to get into their desired education.
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