More than 13,000 high school students passed the University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT) for incoming U.P. freshmen of Academic Year 2011-2012, the U.P. Board of Regents (UPBOR) announced Tuesday.
The examination, which determines who can enter the university as freshmen in the incoming academic year, was held on Aug. 7 and 8, 2010.
"Admission into U.P. depends not only on your performance in the UPCAT but also on your high school grades -- your weighted standardized scores on the UPCAT subtests in Language Proficiency, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics and Science, and the weighted average of final grades in your first three years in high school are combined," UPBOR said.
"To implement the policy of democratization to make the U.P. studentry more representative of the nation's population, socio-economic and geographic considerations are factored in the selection of campus qualifiers," U.P. officials said.
UPCAT is one of the largest college entrance examination in the country.
In 2009, more than 67,000 students took the exam in testing centers nationwide.
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