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The reform of student selection at higher education institutions has increased the grades of student examinations, as the majority of university starting places are filled directly through the selection of certificates.
White For decades, head-to-head printing has meant intermediate years or college entrance exams for new students. Ringing at the spring festival Gaudeamus igiturin the tunes have been a sign behind high school times.
However, this is no longer the case for everyone.
In the 2020 student selection reform of higher education institutions, the results of student examinations became the main route to higher education. The choice of evidence put high school students in a new position.
One of the new age students graduated from Vaskivuori High School in 2019 Sofia Sillanpää. He has taken the student exams a total of thirteen times, six of which he has been raising his grades to get into college.
“I originally wrote six subjects and still graduated in social studies after graduation, when I decided to apply to study social sciences instead of medicine,” says Sillanpää.
“Besides, I’ve been upgrading six times, five times since graduation.”
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“I have friends who are already in college but still go on to raise their grades every year for the sake of certainty.”
In Sillanpää’s high school time, which began in 2016, was in transition. For high school students who started a year or two earlier, “student exams didn’t matter,” Sillanpää says.
“We were again told when we came to high school that we should know right away what we want to write because it matters when applying to colleges. It was terribly stressful when suddenly I had to know right away what I wanted to write, ”says Sillanpää.
He himself was part of that lucky gang that already had plans for college. Although the planned medical studies later changed to political science, the clear goal helped Sillanpää to make choices about the subjects to be studied.
“It would have been hot if you hadn’t known what you wanted to study after high school.”
Monelle for a representative of the older generation, raising grades in student exams or writing new subjects after receiving a white cap may seem like a strange and strange idea.
For Sillanpää’s circle of friends, however, it is part of normal everyday reality.
“The rate of increase in my own grades isn’t even very high. I have friends who are already studying at university but still go on to raise their grades every year to be sure if they ever want to change fields. ”
HS also reached out to a person who has renewed his student transcripts more than 30 times with the goal of getting better grades for medical purposes. However, he did not want to give an interview on the subject.
Evidence selection emphasis has been placed on, among other things, reducing the burden of entrance examinations and a smoother transition to higher education.
On the other hand, it has been criticized stress drainage for high school students and a points system that is said to guide high school students for a long time in mathematics and physics at the expense of other subjects.
According to Sillanpää, there would be a lot to correct in the choice of evidence, even though the idea is “basically good”.
“I would like math and physics not always to be the subjects that give the most points to the choice of evidence, but the scoring would depend more on the field. In addition, it is also important to maintain pathways to higher education than just the choice of evidence, and this should not be emphasized so much. ”
Despite the criticism, however, Sillanpää is pleased to have been able to apply to the university during the selection of certificates. He began his political science studies at the University of Turku last autumn.
“Personally, raising the results of the student exams has been a clearer option than the entrance exam,” says Sillanpää.
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