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Last week Ekot was able to reveal National Coordinator Peter Honeth’s plan on how the fall college entrance exam can be taken in one month. Each institution of higher education received a ceiling on how many can take the test there, and in total in the country there are about 27,000 people, reducing by half the number compared to last fall.
The national coordinator then called the procedure for naming a system “first come, first served,” something critics have called unfair, among other things.
University and University Council, UHR, before the registry that opens tomorrow morning, decided to use a Danish IT system that will be able to handle the number of people expected to log in at the same time. The system is set up so that you first enter a kind of digital waiting room. It is open from seven o’clock, an hour before registration opens. At eight o’clock, people in the waiting room are assigned a queue number.
But which place in the queue you get doesn’t depend on when between seven and eight o’clock you entered this waiting room. Instead, the queue number is issued randomly. This is confirmed by the creator of the system, the CEO of the Danish company behind the IT system, to Ekot.
This means that it will be the lottery rather than a first-come, first-served system that decides who can write the exam. Here’s what Peter Aronsson, president of Linnaeus University and a member of the UHR board, says.
– 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 is the broadband connection you have, which is worse than the lottery, says Peter Aronsson.
The National The coordinator, Peter Honeth, tells Ekot that it is true that it will be the lottery that decides, at least for the very many who will register before the registration time at eight o’clock.
– Yes, it will be for many, it will be. But of course it happens that if a lot of people walk through the waiting room, that is what will decide for most or many, says Peter Honeth.
