Entry Test for Medical/Dental Colleges held..
For the first time in the history of Pakistan, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar introduced Online Registration System for Education Testing and Evaluation Agency (ETEA) Entrance Test for admission in medical / dental colleges of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Test was held on 15th July 2012 simultaneously at Army Stadium Peshawar and Ayub Medical College Abbottabad. This System was a replacement for the manual system in which candidates or their parents used to wait in long queues for submission of Form in scorching heat of June and July. People have appreciated this system and popularity of the system can be determined from the fact that more than 18000 candidates registered themselves online.
Salient features of this system were
• Confirmatory Email consisting of Admit Card to be presented by candidate in Test Centre
• Confirmatory sms consisting of Student Test ID.
• Easy to use interface for form filling.
• 24 hours help line support
• Freedom to View, Save or Print Admit Card any where and any time.
• Freedom to submit forms 24 Hours a day for 17 consecutive days without any break.
Comments of the general public about this system show that people are waiting to take advantage from latest technologies and that’s why they have accepted this change whole heartedly. They have appreciated IT Department and Vice Chancellor Khyber Medical University in particular for making this bold decision.