13-22 April and 15-25 July 2023 – Corriere.it

From 13 to 22 April and from 15 to 25 July 2023. These are the two courses in which the new entrance exams into medicine can be taken. Awaiting anxiously by tens of thousands of aspiring whitecoats, the dates for the revised exam have finally come out, which will be held for the first time in two separate sessions and on different dates depending on the universities. So we start in April with the first round of exams. In July there will be a second round, for all those who didn’t do well in the Spring Tests and want to try their luck again, for those who finished like that and want to try to improve their score, and for those who didn’t. Still ready in April and haven’t even tried.

As announced by former Minister María Cristina Mesa nearly a year ago, Starting next year, testing medicine will completely change the skin. Good-bye In the individual competition in SeptemberThere will be two sessions per year, on different dates depending on the university. High school graduates and fourth-year students will also be able to participate in the new exams, which will not be the same for everyone but with “equivalent” questions. The test will be simpler – 50 questions instead of 60, in 90 minutes instead of 100 – and repeatable many times (one per session), on the model of the Tolc (Test OnLine Cisia) entrance tests that many universities already rely on to gain access. Degree courses with a maximum enrollment limit. In this way, those who are rejected for the first time will avoid having to wait a year before re-testing, often in the meantime enrolling in a “similar” college to medicine, only to be rejected again and forced to continue down a path they, at least from the start, did not. It was only a temporary gap. But on the other hand – at least this is how students object – as exams progress into April and July, there is a risk that exam preparation will overlap with maturity exam.

While the exam had hitherto had to be taken at a candidate’s first choice location – with relevant travel costs – from now on, it may be taken at the location closest to home, even if it is different from the place of future registration. Based on Ministerial Decree No. 1925, once the tests are conducted, Candidates will be able to choose the best score among those achieved in the two courses for registration purposes So that they can then indicate, in order of preference, which sites they intend to compete in. Candidates will be able to enter the application with their choices from 31st July to 24th August 2023 at 3.00 PM through the CINECA portal.

The national ranking will be published on September 5, 2023before prior years to allow for a valid start to the new academic year 2023-2024. Starting from the 2024-2025 academic year, passing in the ranking can take place even earlier since the TOLC exams will be held in February and April.

In order to participate in the exams, candidates must register through CISIA website (Another acronym for Interuniversity Consortium for Integrated Access Systems). Registering for the TOLC exam will also allow the candidate to access the exercises, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), i.e. (free) distance preparation courses for each topic featured in the TOLC exam and compare their scores with those in the aggregate form obtained by other participants in the same periodso you can rate your sites.

The tests will last 90 minutes During which candidates will have to answer a 50 questions divided into 4 main sections: Reading comprehension and knowledge gained in studies, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and reasoning. They will be conducted on the computer at workstations set up by the individual universities. From now on, it is forbidden to bring into the classroom not only smartphones, tablets, books or handwritten notes, but also pens, pencils, blank paper and any other instrument suitable for writing, otherwise the exam will be cancelled.