Prospective Health Science students faced their penultimate exams today (Sunday) for an opportunity to be offered admission into Ghana’s premier University.
To some of the students it was a test of their lives and thus nothing must be left to chance whilst others it was a normal exam to write; pass and forget.
Most of the students who took part in this year’s WASSCE were shortlisted by the University of Ghana to be offered admission into the College of Health Sciences to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in Medicine & Surgery, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dental Laboratory Sciences and Dietetics. Others include Bachelor of Science degree in Diagnostic Radiography, Medical Laboratory, Occupational Therapy as well as Physiotherapy.
The exams which was schedule to commence at exactly 9am delayed for more than an hour as a result of the prospective students having difficulty locating their index numbers in the examination hall.
The entrance exams did not only cover the usual science questions but current affairs in the health sector as well as questions on some universities in Ghana.
Some of the students who spoke to Univers news expressed mixed reaction at the end of the two and half hours paper. To some; they were confident of excelling in the exams whilst to others it’s at the mercy of God.
“It was a different experience because even though most of the questions were part of our syllabus; I realized that for the English questions it wasn’t what we did in senior High school. This one was much tougher but if you are someone who reads a lot you’ll be able to pass. The science too was quite okay except the critical and analytical reasoning involved but as a medical or health students; it’s a risk-taken profession so you have to be someone who is up to the task.” A Prospective Physiotherapy student explained.
“I was expecting medicine questions but they were turning the questions someway, social studies and other stuff. No biology; no physics so what’s the meaning of the medicine I’m into. They should have brought biology and physics.” A Prospective Medicine student lamented.
The Students who will pass the entrance exams will have to face an interviewing panel in the final hurdle to be offered admission into the University of Ghana.
Meanwhile some parents who accompanied their wards expressed their frustration of the process and called on the University management to put in place systems to make the entrance exams easier.
Another parents appealed to the university authority to create centers in the regions to save them from travelling long distance to Accra just for a short paper.
“I think the process must be improved on. Nobody should think that Accra represent Ghana. Some people must travel from far distance just to write a short test. I have to travel hundred kilometers from Osei-Kojokrom in the Western region before I could even get Ecobank to pay the entrance exams fees. I think a second look must be looked at the whole process.” A parent bemoaned.
But the Dean for the Allied Health Sciences of the University of Ghana, Professor Patrick Ferdinand Ayeh-Kumi said due to time constraints they were not able to have some centers at the regions for the college of health science entrance exams. He has however indicated that hopefully next year additional examination centers will be created in other regions to save students and parents alike from travelling long distances.
By Emmanuel Dzivenu/ Radio Univers 105.7 FM
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