Undergrads to face new English aptitude test
The Higher Education Ministry had decided to conduct a separate examination to check the English language skills of students who sat for the Advanced Level Examination last year before being selected to universities, officials said yesterday.
Ministry Secretary Dr. Sunil Jayantha Navaratne said that the students would have to undergo a three-month English course prior to university admission based on the results of this exam. He said that this was a one-off exam as most students had not sat for the General English paper at the 2010 A/L exam last year. However, he said that it would be made compulsory for all the students to sit for this paper from 2011 onwards. “Those who do not sit for this paper would not be admitted to any university. There are schools with no English teachers. Students of those schools should also sit for the paper. We only want to check their English knowledge before entering them to university,” he said.
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