Graduates who finish high school in 2023 and who wish to continue their studies in General Medicine, in addition to the matriculation exams, must also undergo an additional exam that is directly related to their admission specifically to this branch.
The news was announced by the Minister of Education Evis Kushi, who said that this exam has been chosen as a test for the branch of General Medicine since it is one of the most requested branches.
The exam will be held at the Educational Services Center and will be a pilot. All graduates with an average above 8 are allowed to take this exam, while Kushi said that the purpose of this pilot test is to be implemented for other branches.
"Now you, I believe you have heard, it is not a new thing, because we actually launched it early, it is related to the automated examination of the General Medicine Program, which means all those graduates who want to choose the Medicine program of General Medicine, so they want to continue their studies in General Medicine, in addition to the obligations that the system currently has for the intermediate matriculation exams, the formula that is already active, they have the obligation to give another exam which is an exam that takes place in the premises of the Center of Educational Services, is an automated exam like the portal exam. As the license exams are done, in order to avoid mistakes and fictitiousness, to shorten the time and ultimately that merit-preference system that the entire state matura system aims to achieve 100%. I want to emphasize that last year we set up a working group that analyzed many elements of the State Matura process and the working group in communication with teachers, graduates and education experts came to the conclusion that there are 3 changes that we need to make : The first is precisely this automated exam that this year will be a pilot only for the General Medicine program where the demands are greater and where the best go there and then we intend to extend it to other exams as well . The second, that point in the regulation where it is stated that re-evaluation of the test is not allowed will be abolished where it exists. I wish that there will never be, but in any case, whether it is a technical error or a human error, whatever the error is, we cannot decide that there is no reevaluation of the test. There will be reassessment. And the third is the ranking of high schools. Work has already begun in ASCAP to rank high schools according to a formula, according to some indicators that ASCAP is working on, and we will present this to you at the end so that each school knows where it is in relation to other schools. This is a big challenge for us because it now requires us to work so hard for the question fund to take measures, because it will be a large number, all those high school graduates who have an average above 8 or 8.5, as the University of Medicine has determined the criteria and who have chosen to compete for medicine" according to some indicators that ASCAP is working on and we will present this to you at the end so that each school knows where it is in relation to other schools. This is a big challenge for us because it now requires us to work so hard for the question fund to take measures, because it will be a large number, all those high school graduates who have an average above 8 or 8.5, as the University of Medicine has determined the criteria and who have chosen to compete for medicine" according to some indicators that ASCAP is working on and we will present this to you at the end so that each school knows where it is in relation to other schools. This is a big challenge for us because it now requires us to work so hard for the question fund to take measures, because it will be a large number, all those high school graduates who have an average above 8 or 8.5, as the University of Medicine has determined the criteria and who have chosen to compete for medicine", said Khushi.
The director of the Educational Services Center, Aurora Balliu, explained how the test will work.
"The way this test is generated leaves no room for any kind of misinterpretation. 100 applicants who have the same test are tested at the same time, because the test is automatically generated by the system. It will be a test divided into three levels, just like the matriculation test is, just like the tests you take at school are divided into three levels. We think we will have 50 questions of 100 points just like the license system they will be questions designed according to levels, they will be questions that the system also takes according to levels. The minister told you the answer, you get it through a statement in real time, as soon as you finish the exam, and as soon as you finish the exam, you understand in which ranking position you are ," she said.