List of admissions tests

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This is a list of standardized tests that students may have to take for admissions to various schools:

Contents 1 America 1.1 Secondary School 1.1.1 Admissions 1.1.2 Mid-course 1.2 Undergraduate 1.3 Graduate/Professional schools 1.4 English 2 Elsewhere 2.1 Undergraduate 2.2 Graduate/Professional schools 2.3 Language proficiency 2.3.1 Chinese 2.3.2 French 2.3.3 German 2.3.4 Japanese 2.3.5 Portuguese 2.3.6 Spanish 3 External links

[edit] America

[edit] Secondary School

[edit] Admissions

• SHSAT - Specialized High Schools Admissions Test for New York City
• ISEE - Independent School Entrance Examination
• SSAT - Secondary School Admission Test
• HSPT - High School Placement Test

[edit] Mid-course

• California High School Exit Exam - California
• Connecticut Academic Performance Test - Connecticut
• Connecticut Mastery Test - Connecticut
• Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) - Florida
• Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) - Kentucky
• High School Proficiency Assessment - New Jersey
• Regents Examinations - New York
• Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System - Massachusetts
• Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) [1] - Tennessee
• Ohio Graduation Test - Ohio
• Pennsylvania System of School Assessment - Pennsylvania
• Standards of Learning - Virginia
• Washington Assessment of Student Learning - Washington
• Advanced Placement Program

[edit] Undergraduate

• SAT - formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test
  • SAT Subject Tests
  • Former English Language Proficiency Test - ELPT
  • PSAT/NMSQT - Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test
• ACT - formerly American College Testing Program or American College Test
• TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language

[edit] Graduate/Professional schools

• Allied Health Professions Admission Test (AHPAT)
• Dental Admission Test (DAT)- (United States)
• GAMSAT - Graduate Australian Medical Schools Admissions Test
• Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) - (US)
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
• Law School Admission Test (LSAT) - (US and Canada)
• Miller Analogies Test (MAT)
• Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) - (US and Canada)
• MOAT - for medical school
• Optometry Admission Test (OAT) - Optometry Admission Test
• Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT)
• Veterinary College Admission Test (VCAT)
• UKCAT - United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test

[edit] English

• IELTS - International English Language Testing System
• TOEIC - Test of English for International Communication
• TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language
• London Tests of English - A series of six exams from Pearson Language Assessments
• TSE - Test of Spoken English
• TWE - Test of Written English
• UBELT - University of Bath English Language Test
• Former ELPT - English Language Proficiency Test

[edit] Elsewhere

• Eleven plus - For entry to grammar schools in the UK
• PSLE - Entrance test into Secondary Schools for Singapore
• OKS - Entrance test into Secondary Schools for Turkey
• UPSR - Entrance test into Secondary Schools for Malaysia

[edit] Undergraduate

• IELTS - International English Language Testing System
• A-level - Standard means of entry to English, Welsh and Northern Irish universities
• Scottish Higher - Standard means of entry to Scottish universities
• Higher School Certificate New South Wales ExternalAssessment
• Abitur - German High School final exam which determines university acceptance
• Baccalauréat - French High School final exam which determines university acceptance
• Selectividad - Spanish High School final exam which determines university acceptance
• Psychometric Entrance Test (colloquially "The Psychometry") - Required for undergraduate entry to most universities in Israel
• Access programme - Alternative means of entry to UK universities
• International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
• Högskoleprovet - the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test
• Examination for Japanese University Admission - Required for entry by foreigners into many Japanese Universities
• IIT-JEE - Standard means of entry to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
• BITSAT - Standard means of entry to BITS, Pilani
• AIEEE - Standard means of entry to the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) across India with some other colleges
• All India Pre Medical Test - Standard test for admission to 15% of Central Government quota merit seats in Government Medical Colleges in India.
• ÖSS - Standard means of entry to Turkish universities
• UMAT - Undergraduate Medical Admissions Test, required for undergraduate entry to many Australian and New Zealand undergraduate-entry medical schools
• THEA - Texas Higher Education Assessment
• Vestibular - University entrance exams in Brazil
• National College Entrance Examination - Standard means of entry to Chinese universities
• College Scholastic Ability Test - Standard means of entry to South Korean universities and colleges
• HKALE - Standard means of entry to Hong Kong universities
• Leaving Certificate Examination - Standard means of entry to colleges and universities in the Republic of Ireland
• Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia - Malaysia Higher School Certificate (sic) is a test usually taken by students at the end of Form 6
• Matura - Austrian High School Final Exam - required for university admission
• MH-CET - Test for Graduate and/or Post-Graduate Studies in Maharashtra (India)
• TNPCEE - Test for undergraduate Engineering admissions in Anna University (Tamilnadu, India)
• EAMCET - Test for admissions into engineering and medical schools in the state of Andhra Pradesh(INDIA)
• Equivalent National Tertiary Entry Rank - Australian aptitude test for university admission
• STAT - Australian aptitude test for non-school leavers

[edit] Graduate/Professional schools

• History Aptitude Test (HAT) - (United Kingdom)
• BMAT - Biomedical Admissions Test (United Kingdom)
• Common Admission Test (CAT)- (India)
• Dental Aptitude Test (Canada)
• LNAT - National Admissions Test for Law (UK)
• Prueba de Selección Universitaria - (Chile)
• MH-CET - (Maharashtra-India)
• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) - (India)
• MPPET (MP PRE ENGINEERING TEST) -MP INDIA

[edit] Language proficiency

[edit] Chinese

• Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì - Chinese Proficiency Test.

[edit] French

• TEF - Test d'évaluation du français
• TCF - Test de connaissance du français
• TFI - Test de français international
• DALF - Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française
• DELF - Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française

[edit] German

• Deutsches Sprachdiplom Stufe I and II- German as a foreign language
• DSH
• TestDaF

[edit] Japanese

• JLPT - Japanese Language Proficiency Test

[edit] Portuguese

• CELPE-Bras - Brazilian Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese for Foreigners

[edit] Spanish

• DELE - Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera, Diplomas of Spanish as a Foreign Language.

[edit] External links

• DMOZ listings of test preparation websites
• Educational Testing Service developer of many of these exams