The purpose and benefits of school entrance exams

Acquiring a formal education has become an integral part of our existence long before the establishment of colleges and universities. Based on archaeological findings, evidence of early forms of schooling was observed among artifacts such as clay tablets with carved symbols, carvings on cave walls, and others.

Today, educational institutions are in close competition in terms of setting excellent educational standards aimed at admitting only the best students and producing the highest quality graduates. In order to achieve these objectives, school boards and administrations have implemented control measures to ensure that only students who qualify or pass certain categories are admitted to the school where entrance exams are one of the control measures applied.

Are entrance exams just to judge a student’s abilities? It is the prerogative of an educational institution to establish standards that will assess the general ability of a student through an entrance examination and to admit or deny his application for admission to the school in accordance with existing laws established by the Department of Education. However, some schools do not have entrance exams as long as the student meets the basic requirements for the next educational level. However, denial of any request should be based on existing policies and requirements and not on other unfair issues.

For what purpose do the aspiring registrants take the entrance exams? Entrance exams are beneficial not only for the school itself, but also for students and aspiring enrollees. Such control measures are established by the school administration to filter students from among the best and only the best are admitted to the school, as there are schools that aim for excellence where the intellectual capacity of a student outweighs the financial capability. Doing so ensures management that high standards are maintained. In addition, producing the highest quality students or graduates gives the school undisputed prestige and honor in the absence of controversies that raise doubts and question the reputation of the school. Also, schools that maintain the highest standards pride themselves on being generalized by having the best students and graduates, making the school synonymous with excellence or intelligence.

Students who passed such exams and eventually were admitted to such schools have a distinctive sense of satisfaction and pride in them called “bragging rights” that gives them an advantage over other students at other institutions. In addition, being with intelligent company is a good motivational and stimulating tool for a person to live and improve in the best way and not to mention learning from various points of view.

In fact, choosing a reputable school that offers a good quality education and being a graduate from it is a positive factor in your job search. Whether we deny it or not, there are large companies that prefer graduates of renowned schools over them, the name of the school itself is already a guarantee of a high-quality employee.