{"id":31917,"date":"2024-05-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=31917"},"modified":"2024-05-01T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:04:35","slug":"prepare-university-admission-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/prepare-university-admission-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"How to prepare for university admission tests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year, university admission tests that decide the future of thousands of students will be held from 14 to 16 June. We present \u2018selectivitat.io\u2019, the definitive tool to prepare for them and give you the best chance at success.<\/b><\/h3>\n

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In 2021, at the age of 22, Jaume Plana created <\/span>selectivitat.io<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>a platform that offers all the teaching material to prepare for your GCSE<\/b>, as well as for university admission tests. The initiative was born from the experience of Jaume and other people around him who had, as he describes, a feeling of abandonment when it came to studying and preparing for these exams.<\/span><\/p>\n

In just over a year, the platform has collected all the material necessary for the subjects taken in the GCSE: notes sent by the students themselves, notes from academies and professionals, mock exams, grade calculators, courses and podcasts. All with the philosophy of free access, as Plana explains: <\/span>“It’s free now and forever and ever, we believe that you don’t have to pay for educational material”<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to these basic and free services, there are additional paid services for students who may need the support of a teacher to help them resolve doubts and accompany them in this process.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The grade that decides your future<\/b><\/h3>\n

This is the well-known, and dreaded for some, cut-off mark. The mark that is extracted from the \u2018selectivitat\u2019 and which will decide which degree the student can study and at which university, within the range of options that he or she has chosen. A system that Plana himself considers unfair and with a great risk of loss of talent along the way: <\/span>“There are incredible people who would be perfect in entrance examinations, but they can never get there because the filtering is based on marks”<\/b> when the employment sector, he remarks, “is not based on marks”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The current education system focuses on grades from the start. Even in nursery school (from three to five years old) there are schools that initiate students into this selection system that will accompany them for the rest of their academic life. Therefore, they become accustomed to selection by grades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Plana points out that <\/span>they are not taught the basis of the learning process and take advantage of it<\/b>. There are thousands of students who, due to a lack of organisational tools, lack of support or fear of not achieving their objectives, end up failing in this system.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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