List of admission tests to colleges and universities

This is a list of standardized tests that students may have to take for admissions to various Universities and Colleges. Tests of language proficiency are excluded here. Only tests not included within a certain secondary schooling curriculum are listed.

Thus, those tests initially focused on secondary-school-leaving, e.g., GCE A-Levels in the UK, or French Baccalaureate, are not listed here, although they function as the de facto admission tests in those countries

Undergraduate

CELTA-The Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adult

Australia

• STAT – Special Tertiary Admissions Test, aptitude test for non-school leavers
• UMAT – Undergraduate Medical Admissions Test, required for undergraduate entry to many Australian and New Zealand undergraduate-entry medical schools
• ATAR- Australian Tertiary Admissions Test
• GAT - General Achievement Test ( VCE Students - Victorian Certificate of Education )
• HSC - Higher School Certificate

Brazil

• Vestibular – University entrance exams in Brazil

China

• National College Entrance Examination – Standard means of entry to Chinese universities
• AST – Ameson Scholastic Test, originally designed for students who come from China, and are applying for the University of Cambridge of the UK, now used by a handful of UK and Australian universities.

Colombia

• ICFES exam – Test for all undergraduate students that want to apply to a university in Colombian territory.

France

• Baccalauréat (or le bac) – Test for all undergraduate students who are looking to enter a university in France.

Germany

• Abitur – Test for German students who want to apply to a university in Germany.

India

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Admission procedures and entry tests vary widely across states and universities/institutes. Usually, admission to a university in a state is based upon the performance of the candidates in the state-wide Higher Secondary examinations. These are usually given after completion of the twelfth standard/grade, for e.g. the HSC examinations of Maharashtra. Some states also have special entrance examinations for entry into engineering and medical programs, for e.g. the Common Entrance Test in Karnataka, Common Entrance Test in DELHI. Admission into federally established institutes like the Central Universities, the IITs and the NITs is usually based on a combination of performance in nation-wide exams such as the AIEEE and the state-level Higher Secondary examinations. Admission to the National Law Universities is based on a merit-cum- preference National level entry examination conducted annually by Common Law Admission Test [CLAT] organising Committee.

• CTET- Central Teacher Eligibility Test
• IES- Indian Engineering services
• Common Law Admission Test – Standard means of entry to the National Law Universities across India.
• AIEEE – Standard means of entry to the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) across India with other reputed private as well as government universities.
• All India Pre Medical Test – Standard test for admission to 15% of Central Government quota merit seats in Government Medical Colleges in India.
• BITSAT – Standard means of entry to BITS Pilani institutes across the country.
• IIT-JEE, HSEE – Standard exams for entry to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and ITBHU
• MAHE, VIT, SRM And KIIT Entrance Examinations- for entry into these reputed private Deemed Universities
• GGSIPU Conducts CET to admission to various programes in country's capital(DELHI) in various government and private engineering college.
• CAT, XAT, JMET,AMCAT(Amity University) or SNAP – Standard exams for entry to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other business schools
• MBA-MAT- Management aptitude test

• All India Bar Examination ( AIBE)  New

• ( NATA) -National Aptitude Test  in Architecture

• National Eligibility Test (NET)

• CSIR Test

State Level

Bihar

• BCECE – Test for admissions into medical, engineering and pharmacy course in the Bihar.

BCECE Board is the only institute of its kind in the Country that care about proxy studentds. At the examination centre candidates have to proceed three steps to avoid proxy.BCECE is the tuffest exam in India at state level examination.

Madhya Pradesh

• MP-PET – Test for admissions into medical, engineering and pharmacy course in the M.P.

Board is the only institute of its kind in the Country that organizes competitive tests all over India for entrance to various professional courses every year on a very large scale.

Gujarat

• GUJCET – Test for admissions into medical, engineering and pharmacy course in the state.
• GCET – Test for admissions into MCA and MBA programs in the state.

Andhra Pradesh

• EAMCET – Test for admissions into engineering and medical schools in the state

Delhi

• CEE – Standard means of entry to Delhi College of Engineering(DCE) and Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology(NSIT).

Although from 2010, the CEE has been cancelled and instead both of the above listed institutes will conduct counselling and admissions via the score in AIEEE exam.

• CET – Standard means of entry to State government engineering college(CBPGEC,AIT,GBPGEC) and affiliated self financed college.GGSIPU,Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

Karnataka

• Common Entrance Test, the Karnataka common entrance test (KCET) – Test for admission into medical and engineeringass

Kerala

• Kerala Medical and Engineering Entrance -2011
   

Maharashtra

• MH-CET, the Maharashtra common entrance test – Test for admission into medical and engineering schools.

Orissa

• Orissa JEE,The orissa Joint Entrance Examination – Test for admission into medical, engineering management schools

Tamil Nadu

• TNPCEE – Test for undergraduate admissions in the select universities in the state of Tamil Nadu.This test has been removed from admission requirements from the academic year 2007–08 following approval from the then president Dr.APJ Abdulkalam

Single Entrance Examination for Medical Entrance

The Medical Council of India has finally decided (and Accepted by Health Ministry) that there will be only one common entrance test each for over 30,000 MBBS seats and over 11,000 MD seats in all government and medical colleges in the country, reports the Times of India

Earlier (till this year), students wanting to take up courses in medicine had to appear in at least five to six MBBS and MD entrance tests for various colleges and worry about attendant problems like clash of exam dates as well as travel to distant places for counselling for allotment of seats.

But from 2011, there will be just one entrance test each for MBBS and MD courses offered by all 271 medical colleges, 138 government-run and 133 under private management. These colleges together offer over 31,000 seats for MBBS courses and another 11,000 for PG.

The confusion caused by multiple entrance tests and counselling saw hundreds of students rush to the Supreme Court every year complaining about the system where they were left high and dry even for making a single mistake in their choices.

In response to a petition filed by Simran Jain through advocate A D N Rao had sought a direction from the Supreme court to Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Centre for a single window system for admissions.

During hearing of the petition before a Bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and H L Gokhale, the decision for one common entrance test was conveyed by MCI counsel and senior advocate Amarendra Saran. Additional solicitor general P P Malhotra said the government had accepted MCI’s suggestion to amend the regulation concerning admissions to medical colleges.

Indonesia

• TKB – Test for undergraduate admissions in Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia
• Ujian Masuk Perguruan Tinggi Nasional (UMPTN) – Test for undergraduate admissions in State College in Indonesia
• SPMB – Test for undergraduate admissions in some state and private colleges

Israel

• Psychometric Entrance Test (colloquially "The Psychometry") – Required for undergraduate entry to most universities in Israel

Iran

• Iranian University Entrance Exam(Konkoor/Concours) – Standard means of entry to universities in Iran.

Ireland

• Health Professions Admissions Test (HPAT) – Undergraduate Medical Admissions Test, required for undergraduate entry to Irish Medical Schools

Japan

• Examination for Japanese University Admission – Required for entry by foreigners into many Japanese Universities

Pakistan

• NAT - Category I – National Aptitude Test, for admission in Engineering, Computer Science, Medical and Arts in most universities of Pakistan

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Sweden

• Högskoleprovet – the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test
• PIL – Test and interview, used by the Karolinska Institute for admission to some of its study programmes

South Korea

• College Scholastic Ability Test – Standard means of entry to South Korean universities and colleges

Turkey

• YGS – Standard means of entry to Turkish universities. (1^st step )
• LYS – Standard means of entry to Turkish universities. (2^nd step)
• ÖSS - Öğrenci Seçme Sınavı (Student Selection Exam)

 Ukraine

• External Independent Evaluation Test - Test for all undergraduate students who are looking to enter a university in Ukraine.

United Kingdom

CELTA-The Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adult

• PTE: The Pearson Test of English Academic
• HAT – History Aptitude Test
• LNAT – National Admissions Test for Law
• BMAT – Biomedical Admissions Test
• UKCAT – United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test
• ELAT – English Literature Admissions Test
• Modern and Medieval Languages Test, provided and required by the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages of the University of Cambridge
• STEP – Sixth Term Examination Paper, only the subjects of Mathematics(I, II, III) are available after 2003
• Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA Cambridge)
• Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA Oxford), formerly known as the PPE(Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Admissions Test
• Thinking Skills Assessment (TSA UCL)
• Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT)
• Health Professions Admissions Test (HPAT), currently only in use for admission into Medicine in the University of Ulster

United States and Canada

• SAT – formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test
  • SAT Subject Tests
• ACT – formerly American College Testing Program or American College Test
• THEA – Texas Higher Education Assessment
• GRE-Graduate Record Examination
• GED-High School Diploma Equivalent

Vietnam

• TSĐH - Tuyển Sinh Đại Học

Postgraduate/Professional schools

Australia

• GAMSAT – Graduate Australian Medical Schools Admissions Test
• LSAT – Law School Admission Test (some Juris Doctor programs)
• IELTS (academic) – International English Language Test (for international students)

United Kingdom

• IELTS (academic) – International English Language Test (for international students)

Turkey

• TUS – Graduate Medical Schools Admissions Test
• ALES – National Aptitude Test, for admission in Graduate / Masters programs

Chile

• PSU: Prueba de Selección Universitaria

Colombia

• ECAES – Examen de Estado de Calidad de la Educación Superior

India

• MH-CET – (Maharashtra-India)
• Common Admission Test (CAT)- (India)
• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), JAM and Jmet – Standard means of entry to the graduate courses at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
• Management Aptitude Test (MAT)-(India)
• Faculty of Management Studies (FMS)-(India)
• Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT)-(India)
• The IIT-Joint Entrance Exam - An MCQ based admission test to the Indian Institute of Technology and other technological . colleges.
• EAMCET - (Andhra Pradesh-India)

Pakistan

• GAT-GENERAL – Graduate Aptitude Test, for admission in M.Phil and HEC Scholarship Schemes, Pakistan.
• GAT-SUBJECT – Graduate Aptitude Test, for admission in PhD programs, Pakistan.
• NAT - Category II – National Aptitude Test, for admission in Graduate / Masters programs, Pakistan.

United States and Canada

CELTA-The Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adult

• Miller Analogies Test (MAT)
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
• Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
• Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
• Dental Admission Test (DAT)- (United States)
• Dental Aptitude Test (DAT)- (Canada)
• Optometry Admission Test (OAT)
• Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT)
• Veterinary College Admission Test (VCAT)
• Allied Health Professions Admission Test (AHPAT)
• Law School Admission Test (LSAT)
• TOEFL – Test of English as a foreign language (for international students)

 See also

• List of primary and secondary school tests
• List of secondary school leaving certificates
• List of language proficiency tests

External links

• Test Preparation at the Open Directory Project
• Educational Testing Service developer of many of these exams
• Standard means of entry to Ukrainian universities and colleges (Russian)