MANILA, Philippines – Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the University of the Philippines has again canceled its UP College Admission Test for academic year 2022-2023, the university announced on Tuesday, December 7.on its website, UP said that the University Councils across campuses “voted overwhelmingly in favor” of the decision.
UP said that it will still use the scoring system it adopted in 2020 in assessing freshmen applicants for the next academic year. The said scoring system, however, drew flak as critics observed that the UP Office of Admissions supposedly went “blindly” in its assessment process. In an interview with Rappler in July, UP Office of Admissions director Francisco delos Reyes said that the model they used in evaluating applicants underwent careful vetting and review process by the university’s pool of experts.
On November 16, the government’s pandemic task force approved the phased rollout of face-to-face classes for colleges and universities.
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