Education | Schools keep independent student enrollment system under unified exam

The Tertiary Education Services Office held a press conference yesterday regarding the unified exam

The city’s unprecedented unified exam, organized by four of the territory’s universities, will have an independent student enrollment evaluation system established by the universities themselves, as announced yesterday by representatives of the University of Macau (UM), the Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM), the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) and the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST).
During a press conference at the Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES), Vu Ka Vai, head of Registry of UM, said “the students will participate in the unified exam, but each school will enroll students independently.”
By adopting each institute’s own enrollment system, students’ privacy can be protected, including details of their background and grades.
“International exams are equivalent to this exam, and the students will not be required to take other exams,” said Va, adding that each student can apply to all four universities by taking the unified exam. The student will be eligible to receive offers from all institutions nominated in the application. Each student will receive their admission results independently and directly from each school.
As told by Lam Pou Lok, head of the Technical and Academic Support Division and the acting head of Registry of IFT, students will have to pay application fees in accordance with the number of schools to which they apply. If the students only apply to one school, they will pay the application fee set by that university; if they apply to four, they are obliged to pay the application fees required by each university.
The four schools will implement this unified examination between 30 March and 3 April for the first time.
The “Unified Application Exam” will function as a first entry exam for four subjects: mathematics and the Chinese, Portuguese and English languages.
Tests will be jointly drafted by teachers from the four institutions, and the examination paper will also be evaluated by a team established by the four schools. Other examinations and personal interviews will be undertaken by the institutions individually.
Applications to the institutions will be done in a decentralized manner. Students who intend to apply to any or all of the institutions must still register through an online application system for each institution. Julie Zhu