The three-day Joint College Entrance Exam kicked off yesterday, with 52,270 students who hope to be admitted to departments related to natural sciences and engineering taking exams in math, chemistry and physics.
Over 3,900 students were absent yesterday, raising the admission rate for students testing yesterday to enter natural science and engineering departments to 64.02 percent.
To maintain the fairness in the exam, 71 telecommunication police officers and 39 vehicles were dispatched to detect any potential cheating through use of electronic devices at the test sites. No irregularities were reported yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
The first exam at 9am was in math and was taken by high school students who followed curricula in natural science and engineering. Most students leaving the math exam said it was not very difficult.
According to Shen Ho-che (
The second exam, at 11:10am, was in chemistry. Lin Hua-chou (
Math and chemistry test results are expected to drop in both the lower average scores (average score of all students), and high-average scores (the average score for first half of all students). These two scores are one of the standards set by different college departments as the basic requirements for enrollment.
In Kaoshiung, one student will receive no scores for his chemistry exam for carrying his mobile phone into the test classroom.
With help from traffic police, traffic around test sites was smooth and no students were reported showing up late yesterday for the test. Taipei traffic police, which set up a service center every year to help students who have trouble arriving at their test sites on time, gave a ride to only one student yesterday.
One Taipei student, identified only by his last name, Hsueh, quit the exam after having a minor car accident before the exam. "Today is not my day. So I'm not in the mood to take the exam," Hsueh said.
Today is the second day of the exam, with over 130,000 students taking Chinese and English exams in the morning. Students who hope to enter college as medical science majors will take the biology exam in the afternoon.
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