Erciyes University Entrance Examination for Foreign Students TABLE OF CONTENTS APPLICATION CALENDAR FLOWCHART OF APPLICATION PROCESS 1. GENERAL INFORMATION, BASIC PRINCIPLES AND RULES................................................................................... 2. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS...................................................................................................................................... 3. APPLICATION PROCEDURES........................................................................................................................................... 4. THE EXAMINATION............................................................................................................................................................ 5. EVALUATION OF THE EXAMINATION RESULTS...................................................................................................... 6. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EXAMINATIONRESULTS................................................................................................ 7. QUOTAS FOR ERU PROGRAMS....................................................................................................................................... 8. PREFERENCES AND PLACEMENT PROCEDURES...................................................................................................... 9. PLACEMENT RESULTS...................................................................................................................................................... 10. REGISTRATION.................................................................................................................................................................... 11. TURKISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY............................................................................................................................ 12. ABBREVIATIONS................................................................................................................................................................. APPLICATION CALENDAR Application Period : Feb 2 - April 30, 2015 ERUYOS Examination Date : May 24, 2015, Monday Examination Results : June 12, 2015 Friday Application/Examination Fee : 200 TL (Two hundred Turkish Liras) N a m e o f t h e Bank : T.C Ziraat BANK IBAN Numbers : TR58 0001 0014 3949 3067 0350 01 Account Name (Beneficiary) : ERÜYÖS 1. GENERAL INFORMATION, BASIC PRINCIPLES AND RULES 1.1. Erciyes University Entrance Examination for Students from Abroad, referred to henceforth as ERUYÖS, is an exam to be taken by students from abroad wishing to study at Erciyes University (ERU). The examination is administered by ERU. The exam results can also be used by some other universities for placing students to associate degree and undergraduate programs.The ERUYÖS will be performed on May 24th, 2015. 1.2. This guide contains the regulations and procedures which must be followed by students from abroad who wish to take ERUYÖS in 2015 in order to study at ERU or another university in Turkey accepting the results of ERU YÖS, starting in 2014-2015 academic year. 1.3. ERUYÖS results are valid for 2 years. 1.4. Applications must be submitted via the Internet between Feb 10 - April 20, 2014 1.5. All correspondence between ERU and applicants must be in Turkish or English, using Latin letters. 1.6. The results of ERUYÖS are applicable only for students who wish to be enrolled in an associate degree or undergraduate (Bachelor and/or Associate) program at ERU. ERUYÖS results cannot be used for transfers and/or graduate programs. 1.7. ERU is responsible for neither any accommodation or maintenance problems that students may have nor securing a scholarship or a residence permit. 1.8. The application fee must be paid before the upcoming examination date and may not be credited toward future examination dates. A person who pays the fee, but decides not to apply, or one whose application is considered invalid, or one who does not or cannot take the exam, or one who is not allowed to sit the exam or who is expelled from the exam hall, or who fails the exam, or whose exam paper is invalid for any reason, or who pays for any procedure that does not require payment cannot claim the right to a refund of the fees paid. Applications of those who have not paid the examination fee will not be accepted. 1.9. Upon the publication of this Guide, ERU reserves the right to make any such changes in the regulations of the examination that may be deemed necessary, following the rulings of executive, legislative, and/or judicial bodies, and/or of the Higher Education Council (YÖK), the Evaluation Committee, the ERU Executive Board or the ERU Senate. Any such changes will be put into effect by ERU. Furthermore, any contingency not specifically covered in this Guide will likewise be dealt with by ERU. 1.10. ERUYOS Guide will be neither published in paper form nor distributed. 2. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS 2.1. All applications will be accepted and evaluated on condition that the applicant is either in the final year of their secondary education or has completed the same (stateless people and refugees may also apply) and a) Is a foreign student (including stateless people and refugees), b) Became Turkish citizen by birth and who expatriatehim/herself from Turkish citizenship with the permission of Ministry of Internal Affairs and their underage children registered on these people’s citizenship expatriation document, providing evidence of ownership of the document for the usage of the rights given by the law with number 5901,c) is a foreign student who has taken Turkish citizenship, c) Has Turkish citizenship and completed his/her secondary education in a foreign country except KKTC (including Turkish Schools in a foreign country except KKTC), d) Has dual citizenship where one is KKTC citizenship (except the ones who completed his/her secondary education in KKTC having GCE AL examination results and the ones who have/will have GCE AL examination results after registering and receiving education in a college or high school in other countries between 2005-2010), 2.2. Applications for the following individuals will not be accepted. The applicants who;a) Has Turkish citizenship (except the ones who have completed his/her secondary education in a foreign country except KKTC), a) Has KKTC citizenship (except the ones who have completed their secondary education in KKTC having GCE AL examination results, and the ones who have/will have GCE AL examination results after registering and receiving education in a college or high school in other countries between 2005-2010), b) Has dual citizenship with a birthright Turkish citizenship (except the ones who have completed his/her secondary education in a foreign country – including Turkish Schools in that country- except KKTC), c) Has dual citizenship where one is KKTC citizenship (except the ones who completed his/her secondary education in KKTC having GCE AL examination results and the ones who have/will have GCE AL examination results after registering and receiving education in a college or high school in other countries between 2005-2010), d) Has Turkish citizenship and has attended foreign high schools or foreign embassy schools in Turkey, e) Has been dismissed from an institution of higher education in Turkey due to a disciplinary action or identified as cheater in an examination accomplished by OSYM or COMU in previous years, f) Has acted physically or mentally against T.C. or was stripped of his/her Turkish citizenship as a punishment. g) Even if these individuals take the examination, the scores they obtain will be invalid. 3. APPLICATION PROCEDURES 3.1. Applicants living inside or outside Turkey should apply to the Internet address of ERU. Applications are accepted only within the application period. 3.2. Adaylar başvuru süresi içinde ERÜ’nün internet adresinden Aday Başvuru Formunu çevrimiçi (online) olarak dikkatle doldurup Aday numaralarını online almalıdır.Filling in the Application Form and Obtaining your Applicant ID 3.3. Applicants are fully responsible for any negative results that occur due to the errors made while filling in the Application Form. Identity fields of the Application Form should be filled in with the information on the applicant’s passports without any abbreviations. 3.4. Applicants should also upload their passport style photograph electronically. Since this photograph will be used on the Exam Entrance Card, on the Examination Result Card, as well as for registration and on the Student Identity Card, it must be taken within last three months by the application date, and must be easily recognizable. 3.5. Those applicants who have filled in the Application Form and completed the application procedures will be given an Applicant ID. 3.6. As the Applicant ID and password is necessary for all stages of the examination and for all future transactions with ERU, applicants should record them in a safe and easily accessible place. Paying the Examination Fee 3.7. The application will be approved after payment has been made to the following account: a) IBAN No: IBAN Number: TR58 0001 0014 3949 3067 0350 01 b) Beneficiary name : ERUYÖS c) Amount: 200 TL (Two hundred Turkish Liras) d) Explanation: Application ID - First Name Surname - Beneficiary Example: 14000216 - ALBERT EINSTEIN - ERUYÖS e) Do not forget to provide the bank with this information when making the payment! f) Extra information for payments inside Turkey: Bank: T.C. Ziraat Bank / Branch: Talas 3.8. Applicants in Turkey can deposit the required fee in any branch of the bank. 3.9. Applicants outside Turkey can deposit the required fee from a correspondent bank or any other internationally active bank. 3.10. Applicants, inside or outside Turkey, should be careful about the following points: a) Applicants are considered to have paid the examination fee only after the funds have been transferred and accredited to COMU’s account. Personal checks, money orders, travelers’ checks, postal orders, bank notes or any other form of money transfer are not acceptable; bank checks, postal orders or money enclosed in an envelope should not be sent by post. b) The processing fee that will charged by the bank for the service of depositing the examination fee is not included in the examination fee. c) The application will be invalid unless the examination fee has been paid. d) Applicants should check the information on the confirmation slip to make sure it is accurate before leaving the bank. Any mistakes should be corrected immediately. 3.11. List of applicants, whose applications are approved, and the exam halls will be announced on ERUYOS website from May 8, 2015. Following this date, applicants should print their Exam Entrance Card from http://ersem.erciyes.edu.tr/yos/ Applicants who do not have the Exam Entrance Card will not be admitted to take the exam. 4. THE EXAMINATION 4.1. The 2015-ERÜYÖS examination will be held on Monday, May 24, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. 4.2. Applicants should bring their passports, Exam Entrance Cards for the exam to the examination hall. 4.3. Applicants must bring soft lead pencils, an eraser, and optionally a pencil sharpener with them; they must not bring cellular phones into the examination hall. 4.4. Following identification check starting at 9.30 a.m., applicants will be admitted to the examination halls. The exam will start at 10.00 a.m. and will be held in 1 session; therefore applicants should be ready at least 1 hour before the exam starts. 4.5. ERUYÖS consists of two parts. The first is the “Basic Learning Skills Test,” which will be prepared and given in four languages including Turkish and English. This test will be a 80 question test including abstract reasoning ability questions, mathematics questions and geometry questions. This test does not consist of questions from the fields of Turkish, physics, chemistry, biology, or geography.. 4.6. All of the questions in the booklets are multiple-choice, and the applicant is required to select the right answer from among five alternatives. The applicant should mark the answer sheet carefully, filling in the alternative of his/her choice. Answers will be counted as incorrect if more than one choice is marked or if the applicant’s marks overflow the given space for the answer. 4.7. Answers marked anywhere other than on the given answer sheet will not be considered valid. Answers written on the booklet will be invalid. 4.8. It is against the rules for applicants to talk, cheat or assist others during the examination. Applicants found disobeying the rules will be disqualified. 4.9. At the end of the examination, applicants, as instructed, will hand in the question booklet with the answer sheet to the person in charge of the examination hall. The answer sheets of applicants whose examination results have been declared invalid because they have broken the rules of the examination or have not returned the necessary documents at the end of the examination will not be evaluated and an Examination Rsesult Card will not be issued 5. EVALUATION OF THE EXAMINATION RESULTS 5.1. ERUYOS Basic Learning Skills Test is scored on a scale of 0-100. 5.2. The raw scores are converted to standard scores, the mean of this is 50 and the standard deviation is 10 6. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EXAMINATION RESULTS 6.1. Examination results will only be published on ERU http://ersem.erciyes.edu.tr/yos/ website 6.2. Applicants will be able to find out their examination results by using their user name and password. 6.3. Examination Result Cards will be issued for applicants who have taken the ERÜYÖS provided that their exam is valid. Any applicant who wants to receive an Examination Result Card can get his/her card from the "YÖS Koordinatörlüğü" personally. 7. QUOTAS FOR ERU PROGRAMS 7.1. Information related to Bachelor’s Degree programs is given in Table 1. 7.2. Information related to Associate’s Degree programs is given in Table 2. 7.3. Information related to Bachelor’s Degree programs in which students are placed by an Aptitude Exam is given in Table 3. The 2015 Quatas will be announced later. 8. PREFERENCES AND PLACEMENT PROCEDURES 8.1. The evaluation of the candidates’ applications will be based on the points of the candidates from the Basic Learning Skills Test. In case of equality of the test points of two applicants from this test, the younger candidate will be accepted 8.2. An applicant who gets at least 40 points in 2014 from the Basic Learning Skills Test will be able to make a program preference. 8.3. Applicants can make at most four preferences from the programs given in Table 1, Table 2 and Table 3. 8.4. The applicants who will prefer a program which takes students with an Aptitude Test should also enter the ERÜYÖS exam. Only applicants who get at least 40 points from the Basic Learning Skills Test gains right to attend the Aptitude Test. The placement of these applicants will be upon the results of the Aptitude Test. 8.5. The Aptitude Tests are held on the dates determined by ERU Rectorate and announced on the academic calendar. The dates are also announced on the units’ web sites. Any applicant not attending the Aptitude Test will not be placed in a program 8.6. The applicant will be placed in only one program according to his/her scores and order of his/her preferences by the Foreign Student Office of COMU Student Affairs Department. A list of alternative candidates will be created in the same manner as the student lists. 8.7. ERU is free to fill or not fill the quotas. 8.8. Even if a student has fulfilled all the application conditions this does not mean that they will be placed. 9. PLACEMENT RESULTS 9.1. Examination results http://ersem.erciyes.edu.tr/yos/ will only be published on ERUYOS website 9.2. The accepted applicants will be informed by a letter sent by the Foreign Student Office of ERU Student Affairs Department. All necessary information will be included in this letter. 10. REGISTRATION 10.1. Each applicant accepted in a ERU program must, no matter his/her score in the Turkish Language Proficiency Test, comply with the regulations of ERU and submit the required documents within the stated registration time limits for the academic year 2015-2016. 10.2. Applicants who have gained admission to a ERU program must bring their passports bearing a student visa to ERU during registration. This visa can be obtained from embassies or consulates of the Republic of Turkey abroad. The right to study in Turkey is also granted, without a student visa requirement, to non-citizens, including the holders of the Document for the Use of the Rights Granted by the Law, No. 5901, who originally had Turkish nationality at birth but, upon the Turkish Government's approval, have given up their nationality and have been admitted to the nationality of a foreign state, and have, upon their qualification in the Examination for Foreign Students, been accepted into a ERU program. 10.3. Vacant quotas will be announced on ERU (and/or related Faculty/ School) website. Registration to vacant quotas will be coordinated by the Foreign Student Office of the Student Affairs Department. 10.4. DOCUMENTS FOR REGISTRATION 10.4.1. The original ERUYÖS Result Card 10.4.2. The original secondary school diploma with a notarized Turkish translation from a Notary or Turkish Embassy/Consulate abroad 10.4.3. Diploma Equivalency Certificate given by the Turkish Ministry of Education, 10.4.4. Transcripts, showing the names of courses, number of hours per week and grades received for the courses, approved by the principle of the applicant’s high school with a notarized Turkish translation approved by a Notary or Turkish Embassy/Consulate abroad 10.4.5. A notarized copy of the applicant’s passport, (ERU Student Affairs Department within 1 month following registration), 10.4.6. A copy of the Student Visa obtained from embassies or consulates of the Republic of Turkey abroad, 10.4.7. A copy of the notarized Residence Permit (foreign students must give this document to 10.4.8. Bank slip (receipt) of tuition fee payment, 10.4.9. 6 photographs, 10.4.10. Report of Medical Board for the applicants accepted to health-related programs (chest x-rays and accompanying report for Chemistry programs). 10.4.11. For Turkish citizens, declaration of T.C. Identification Number or the copy of the Identity Card. 10.4.12. For male Turkish citizens, declaration of military service. 10.4.13. For those who have dual citizenship by gaininig a foreign citizenship by birth and later became also a T.C. citizen, “Vukuatlı Nüfus Kayıt Örneği” 10.4.14. Foreign Language Proficiency Exam Result Card, if any 10.4.15. Turkish Language Proficiency Exam Result Card, if any (Certificates taken from a n y TÖMER centers of Turkish universities are valid), 11. TURKISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY 11.1. Following registration, for students who have been accepted in a program where the medium of instruction is Turkish, the date and conditions for the commencement of studies will be dependent upon the scores obtained on the Turkish Language Proficiency Test. a) Those who are deemed proficient in Turkish may commence their studies at the beginning of the academic year (C-Level). b) Those whose Turkish is considered to be inadequate will be given one year’s leave of absence in order to acquire proficiency in Turkish (B or A-Level). First, however, the B or A Level students must register in their respective programs. In order to secure the right to follow their given studies in the 2015-2016 academic year, these students must demonstrate to COMU that they have acquired an adequate level of proficiency in Turkish. Failure to submit Proficiency results will result in an automatic loss of rights of study. c) The Turkish Exam will be held on Monday, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in ERSEM. Note: Information about process of preference, special talent examination dates and registration calendar of students will be announced on yos.comu.edu.tr web site later. 12. ABBREVIATIONS IBAN EE KKTC ERU ERUYÖS Abroad T.C : International Bank Number : Evening Education : The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus : Erciyes University : Erciyes University Entrance Examination for Students from : Republic of Turk
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