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The UCAT Consortium specifies, "Every university uses the UCAT result as part of a well-rounded admissions policy in which several other factors also carry considerable weight." UCAT has been shown to have some independent predictive validity of performance at medical school, [22] but considerably less than A-levels. [23]
STAT – Special Tertiary Admissions Test, aptitude test for non–school leavers. UCAT – University Clinical Aptitude Test, required for undergraduate entry to many Australian and New Zealand undergraduate-entry medical and dental schools.
The test of General Educational Development (GED) and Test Assessing Secondary Completion TASC evaluate whether a person who has not received a high school diploma has academic skills at the level of a high school graduate. Private tests are tests created by private institutions for various purposes, such as progress monitoring in K-12 ...
The following standardized tests are designed and/or administered by state education agencies and/or local school districts in order to measure academic achievement across multiple grade levels in elementary, middle and senior high school, as well as for high school graduation examinations to measure proficiency for high school graduation.
In part, the popularity of this tool is due to the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which funded career guidance in schools. [1] Focus was put onto tools that would help high school students determine which subjects they may want to focus on to reach a chosen career path. Since 1958, career assessment tool options have exploded.
In the 1920s, dropout rates in US medical schools soared from 5% to 50%, [11] leading to the development of a test that would measure readiness for medical school. Physician F. A. Moss and his colleagues developed the "Scholastic Aptitude Test for Medical Students" consisting of true-false and multiple choice questions divided into six to eight subtests.
For district meet academic championship and district meet sweepstakes awards, points are awarded to the school as follows: Individual places: 1st—15, 2nd—12, 3rd—10, 4th—8, 5th—6, and 6th—4. Team places: 1st—10 and 2nd—5. The maximum number of points a school can earn in Calculator Applications is 37.
About 25% of UCAT's students are high school-age students who spend part of their day learning technical skills at regional applied technology college campus. About 75% of UCAT's students are adults who are seeking new skills to obtain employment or are upgrading their current employability skills.