This week in our Foreign Student Series, we begin a discussion of entrance tests.

本周在我们的外国留学生系列节目中，我们开始探讨入学考试的问题。

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However, the country which tops most international education league tables, Finland, does not use any entrance tests.

尽管如此，像芬兰这样的在国际教育领域处于领先地位的国家并没有采用任何的入学考试模式。

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The UK, France and Germany rely on exams such as A-levels, the French Baccalaureate or Abitur – topped up by entrance tests for the most highly popular and selective subjects such as law and medicine.

英国、法国和德国都采用像A-levels这样的考试，法国的Baccalaureate or Abitur考试是在众多的入学考试中排行领先的。 这种考试是针对比较热门的和专业要求比较高的专业而设，比如医学和法律这样的专业。

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He said that selective schools were working with academics to develop and adopt entrance tests that were resistant to coaching.

BBC: Education & Family

But parents would prefer a community grammar school that serves local kids who have passed a floor standard in the entrance tests.

ECONOMIST: Grammar schools

The education minister has called on the Catholic grammar schools running entrance tests this weekend to name the private donor paying for the exam.

BBC: John O'Dowd calls for exam donor to be named