“Close to 3,000 students have received the results of the new aptitude test for entry to medicine later this year. Yesterday’s results will be combined with their Leaving Cert CAO points score. The new system comes after criticism that only students with a “perfect” Leaving Cert score (over 570 CAO points) could secure a place in medicine. Under the new regime students with a minimum of 480 points combined these with their score in the Health Professionals Admissions Test (HPAT) …” (more)
[Seán Flynn, Irish Times, 23 June]