National Comparative Exams
Are you looking for talented students in the Czech Republic and Slovakia with high academic expectations? We have already found them.
National Comparative Exams or NCE ("Národní srovnávací zkoušky; NSZ" in Czech) are certified exams used as a criterion in the acceptance processes of many Czech universities and colleges.
In the 2009/2010 school year, these tests have been administered six times, at 31 locations in the Czech Republic and three locations in Slovakia. NCE have been used by 60 faculties (university departments) and colleges and were taken taken by over 40,000 university applicants. That is almost a half of all university applicants in the Czech Republic. (updated list of faculties with NCE in 2009/10 can be found here)
Most of the applicants have taken the Test of General Academic Prerequisites (GAP). This test is similar to the GRE (Graduate Record Examinations, see www.ets.org) test model, which has been used in tertiary education in the United States since 1966. (More about GAP)
Students have the possibility to sit for exams
in the following modules:
- English
- German
- French
- Spanish
- Mathematics
- Natural Sciences (subtests of biology, physics and chemistry)
- Social Sciences
- Test of General Academic Prerequisites (GAP)
Download more information
| NCE - information fact sheet | pdf, 16kb |
| Scio informational brochure (published 2008) | pdf, 2mb |
