Unified exam to be held by four higher education institutions

A group of four higher-education institutions in the territory have agreed to hold a unified application exam for languages and mathematics, the Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES) advised in a statement on Saturday.
The group, comprised 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), is intending to implement this unified examination between March 30 and April 2 for the first time. The institutions held a debriefing session on Saturday to make a detailed presentation on the enrollment procedure and subjects to be examined.
The session was attended by around 400 participants, amongst them representatives of secondary schools, as well as others from organizations in education and students’ associations.
The “Unified Application Exam” will work as a first entry exam to be held for the subjects of Chinese, Portuguese and English languages as well as for mathematics.
Other examinations and personal interviews, will be undertaken by the institutions individually.
It was also clarified that the application to the institutions continues to be done in a decentralized manner, reaffirming that students that intend to apply to any of the institutions, or to all of them, need to register through an online application system for each of these institutions. This remains unchanged from the previous practice. RM