Richard Wakeford , Eamonn Ferguson , David school selecting UK school leaver entrants for medical Intellectual aptitude tests
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How to make the selection of medical students effective, fair, and open has been contentious for many years. A levels are a major component of selection for entry of school-leavers into UK universities and medical schools, but intellectual aptitude tests for the selection of medical students are burgeoning—they include the Oxford medicine admissions test and the Australian graduate medical scho...
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تاریخ انتشار 2005