UCV began registration for the internal admission test

The Central university of Venezuela (UCV) began the registration process for its internal admission test, known as the entry system due to academic merit and comprehensive diagnosis. With this system, said Corina Aristimuño, secretary of this house of studies, seeks to transparently evaluate the skills of the applicants and privilege academic merit as a selection criteria.

Who can register at the Simadi?

Aristimuño clarified that the process is aimed at the students of the last year of secondary and diversified education and high school graduates.

That is, they can participate both those who are to graduate from the baccalaureate and those who already culminated.

Registration is open via online and corresponds to a first phase, of registration and loading of documents, which culminates on May 31.

What documents should be loaded for registration?

The procedure is simple and accessible, Aristimuño said:

«People have to scan the certified notes from 1st to 4th year and the constancy of study also from 1st to 4th year for those who are not high school; and those who are already high school, copy of the title ».

The official clarified that these requirements are not difficult to meet because are part of the basic documentation that any student of that educational level possesses:

«They are documents that all students who are at that level have, so that it is not extraordinary. For them already It is an absolutely friendly procedure. Nothing they can’t do ».

How does Simadi work and what do you evaluate?

The Simadi is not limited to a unique test and combines several elements.

The system, according to Aristimuño, Weigh the qualifications obtained in the first four years of the Baccalaureate together with the results of the internal tests applied by the university.

“What we try is to give it, we would say, value to academic merit really, because the test is weighted at the end what it is, we would say, your notes of 1 and 4th year, and then a percentage the same as the note they take in the tests or in the tests.”

Do different tests apply according to the study area?

The UCV secretary said they are betting on A more specific evaluation according to the areas of knowledge. He pointed out that, in addition to verbal and numerical skills, specific tests per area have begun to be incorporated.

«We try, since we assumed the Secretariat, apply, as of that skill test in the verbal and numerical area, Specific tests by knowledge areas To see if, in some way, there is a better performance by the student ».

when consulted on whether career aspiring as arts or letters would receive a different approach in the evaluation, the secretary replied:

«No, no, they will weigh in the same way, verbal, numerical ability, since they are superimport competencies, but that test is also applied to have a much closer profile to which the student wants ».

What races have greater demand in the current process?

The interest in entering the UCV continues to concentrate on some specific careers. According to Aristimuño, the results of the previous requests and evidence show marked preference for certain options:

«Last year in the evaluation we clearly obtained the preference is for Medicine, Dentistry, Languages, International Studies and Social Communication ».

And that pattern remains in the current stage:

«In this week we carry requests, preferences sIgueen being medicine, which is on the tip, and the dentistry career ».

What is the objective of the new admission approach?

Aristimuño indicated that current management has focused on Better understand the student entrance profile. When comparing with studies from other universities, such as the recent data from the Andrés Bello Catholic University, he expressed concern about the academic performance of the applicants:

«We have dedicated ourselves to characterize that group of students who are entering the university and, unfortunately, when I saw the results that UCAB is sharing, it is not far from that reality. We are concerned and concern us ».

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