National Comparative Exams

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National Comparative Exams or NCE ("Národní srovnávací zkoušky; NSZ" in Czech) are certified exams used as a criterion in the acceptance processes of many Czech universities and colleges.

In the 2010/2011 school year, these tests have been administered six times, at 30 locations in the Czech Republic and four locations in Slovakia. NCE have been used by more than 50 faculties (university departments) and colleges and were taken by over 30,000 university applicants, more than a third of all university applicants in the Czech Republic. (list of faculties with NCE in 2009/10 can be found here)

Most of the applicants have taken the Test of General Academic Prerequisites (GAP). This test is similar to the GRE (Graduate Record Examinations, see www.ets.org) test model, which has been used in tertiary education in the United States since 1966. (More about GAP)