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Mumbai: In a move that is likely to bring cheer to thousands of students pursuing their International General Certificate of Secondary Education, the Medical Council of India has declared that their AS level exam is as good as the Class XII examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education.
This means that students from this board wanting to pursue medicine in India will be allowed to do so on the basis of their AS (Advanced Subsidiary) English level exam scores. Previously, aspiring medical students were forced to take the CBSE or a state board Class XII exam to appear for the pre-medical entrance test.
The decision to treat this exam on par with the Indian Class XII exam was taken by the MCI’s executive council and communicated to the Cambridge International Examinations’ regional office recently. About 170 schools in the country, with a total student population of about 15,000, are affiliated to this board.Closer home,Maharashtra has 63 schools, of which 43 are in Mumbai, that offer the Cambridge International programme.
This board offers two levels of exams—the AS level English which is the lower level and a higher A level English. Until now, the MCI had accepted the scores of only the A level English exam of medical aspirants. Ian Chambers, CIE regional manager, South Asia, said, “We are delighted that CBSE now accepts the Cambridge AS level English advanced subsidiary course as an equivalent qualification for admission to undergraduate medical courses. This simplifies the process for students who aspire to take up pre-medical entrance exams in the country.’’
Principals, teachers hail MCI decision
Mumbai: Principals and teachers are elated by the MCI decision to equate the AS level exam of CIE with the CBSE.
“The recognition of Cambridge GCE AS level English language by CBSE as equivalent to the Class XII examination is indeed an achievement. Now it will give students who are studying the CIE curriculum a fair chance to compete for medical courses in India,’’ said Soumita Mukherjee, a teacher at Delhi Public School International, Delhi.
An MCI member said that the Association of Indian Universities had approached it seeking equivalence of the CIE conducted exam. “The MCI executive council, which met in late April, took up this matter and decided to give equivalence to the AS level exam scores after studying the curriculum offered by this board,’’ he added. toireporter@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: In a move that is likely to bring cheer to thousands of students pursuing their International General Certificate of Secondary Education, the Medical Council of India has declared that their AS level exam is as good as the Class XII examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education.
This means that students from this board wanting to pursue medicine in India will be allowed to do so on the basis of their AS (Advanced Subsidiary) English level exam scores. Previously, aspiring medical students were forced to take the CBSE or a state board Class XII exam to appear for the pre-medical entrance test.
The decision to treat this exam on par with the Indian Class XII exam was taken by the MCI’s executive council and communicated to the Cambridge International Examinations’ regional office recently. About 170 schools in the country, with a total student population of about 15,000, are affiliated to this board.Closer home,Maharashtra has 63 schools, of which 43 are in Mumbai, that offer the Cambridge International programme.
This board offers two levels of exams—the AS level English which is the lower level and a higher A level English. Until now, the MCI had accepted the scores of only the A level English exam of medical aspirants. Ian Chambers, CIE regional manager, South Asia, said, “We are delighted that CBSE now accepts the Cambridge AS level English advanced subsidiary course as an equivalent qualification for admission to undergraduate medical courses. This simplifies the process for students who aspire to take up pre-medical entrance exams in the country.’’
Principals, teachers hail MCI decision
Mumbai: Principals and teachers are elated by the MCI decision to equate the AS level exam of CIE with the CBSE.
“The recognition of Cambridge GCE AS level English language by CBSE as equivalent to the Class XII examination is indeed an achievement. Now it will give students who are studying the CIE curriculum a fair chance to compete for medical courses in India,’’ said Soumita Mukherjee, a teacher at Delhi Public School International, Delhi.
An MCI member said that the Association of Indian Universities had approached it seeking equivalence of the CIE conducted exam. “The MCI executive council, which met in late April, took up this matter and decided to give equivalence to the AS level exam scores after studying the curriculum offered by this board,’’ he added. toireporter@timesgroup.com
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