Entrance examination

An entrance examination ( in Austrian German: entrance examination ) is to ensure that a learner brings the prerequisites for a course.

This can happen if there are multiple learning groups by evaluation tests to determine to what level the learner working most successful. Frequently it comes to making sure that in the learning event a minimum level can be achieved.

Particularly notorious are the alleged entrance examinations in Japanese elite kindergartens and primary schools, which prepare for the entrance exams for secondary schools, which in turn prepare for the entrance exams to the elite universities; compare school in Japan.

Entrance exams are controversial because on the one hand promote social selection ( exam preparation can be very expensive ) and intended to provide for other power- homogeneous groups that are not generally considered in the theory of learning as a meaningful learning requirement.