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Chapter 8 - Chile’s Admissions Tests: Pending Changes and Revisions

from Part II - Country-Specific Admissions Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2020

By
Mladen Koljatic  and
Mónica Silva
Edited by
María Elena Oliveri  and
Cathy Wendler
María Elena Oliveri
Affiliation:
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
Cathy Wendler
Affiliation:
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
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Summary

Chile’s national, centralized admissions system selects students for both public and private universities that are part of the Unified Admission System. This chapter details the centralized admissions process that controls, supervises, and evaluates the tests; how the testing operation –testing, scoring, application, and selection processes – is conducted; equity issues in admission to Chilean higher education institution; and reforms to the admissions test, the Prueba de Selección Universitaria.

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Chilean admissions systemPrueba de Selección Universitariaeducational reformfairnessChile
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Higher Education Admissions Practices
An International Perspective
 , pp. 145 - 160
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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