Some 6086 people were expected on Tuesday morning in Brussels to sit the medical and dental entrance exam (a second session of which will be organised on Saturday 27 August). About 5500 of them actually showed up.
This is the last entrance exam for these courses. From 2023-2024 onwards, access will be regulated by an entrance exam which, unlike the exam, will only give the green light to a limited number of candidates, who will be selected according to their points. This is the result of the agreement reached in the Inami/Riziv saga.
Meanwhile, the rule has not changed. In order to follow the studies they have chosen, candidates must achieve at least 8/20 in each of the eight subjects assessed. Fifteen multiple-choice questions are proposed in each subject (with one correct answer out of five proposed). The subjects are grouped into two main parts (the scientific subjects: chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics, and the aspects of communication and critical analysis of information). You also need to obtain at least a 10/20 average in each of the two.
With 6087 expected candidates and 5500 present, we are in the same order of magnitude as last year (6165 inscriptions in July 2021). As usual, students taking the test for the first time are in the majority (75%). Those aiming for medicine are also in the majority (80%). Two thirds are female students. And the proportion of non-residents was again around half (a student is considered a non-resident if he or she cannot prove that his or her main residence is in Belgium). For the first time, it even exceeded one out of two registrants (50.1% on Tuesday, compared to 49.5% last year), but in the end it made up 47% of the candidates actually present.
It should be remembered that at the end of the test, non-residents cannot represent more than 30% of the successful candidates who will be able to enrol at university. Hundreds of non-resident candidates have been failed in recent years, even though they passed the exam.
The final assessment of the 2022 edition can of course only be made after the results of the two sessions. For information, the average success rate in recent years has been around 17% (including 19.7% in August 2020, 16.9% in September 2020, 11.6% in July 2021 and 26.7% in August 2021).
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Some 6086 people were expected on Tuesday morning in Brussels to sit the medical and dental entrance exam (a second session of which will be organised on Saturday 27 August). About 5500 of them actually showed up.
This is the last entrance exam for these courses. From 2023-2024 onwards, access will be regulated by an entrance exam which, unlike the exam, will only give the green light to a limited number of candidates, who will be selected according to their points. This is the result of the agreement reached in the Inami/Riziv saga.
Meanwhile, the rule has not changed. In order to follow the studies they have chosen, candidates must achieve at least 8/20 in each of the eight subjects assessed. Fifteen multiple-choice questions are proposed in each subject (with one correct answer out of five proposed). The subjects are grouped into two main parts (the scientific subjects: chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics, and the aspects of communication and critical analysis of information). You also need to obtain at least a 10/20 average in each of the two.
With 6087 expected candidates and 5500 present, we are in the same order of magnitude as last year (6165 inscriptions in July 2021). As usual, students taking the test for the first time are in the majority (75%). Those aiming for medicine are also in the majority (80%). Two thirds are female students. And the proportion of non-residents was again around half (a student is considered a non-resident if he or she cannot prove that his or her main residence is in Belgium). For the first time, it even exceeded one out of two registrants (50.1% on Tuesday, compared to 49.5% last year), but in the end it made up 47% of the candidates actually present.
It should be remembered that at the end of the test, non-residents cannot represent more than 30% of the successful candidates who will be able to enrol at university. Hundreds of non-resident candidates have been failed in recent years, even though they passed the exam.
The final assessment of the 2022 edition can of course only be made after the results of the two sessions. For information, the average success rate in recent years has been around 17% (including 19.7% in August 2020, 16.9% in September 2020, 11.6% in July 2021 and 26.7% in August 2021).
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And yet we put fucking quota on them even though there are large shortages of medical doctors. What a joke.
Oh no, well anyways…
So what?
It’s ok, nobody’s getting INAMI/RIZIV numbers anyway! /s