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Giving suggestions on correct preference to the students, Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) Guidance Specialist Pelin Karahancı said: “The first thing they need to know before making a preference is that they can only prefer an associate degree program with TYT points. In order to prefer an undergraduate program, they must have received at least 180 points from AYT. Students can submit their preferences by logging into the system through the official website of OSYM.”

“THE EXAM RESULT DOCUMENT MUST BE READ CAREFULLY”

Underlining the importance of reading the exam result document carefully, Ms. Karahancı said: “When students first see the test results, they see lots of different points and sequences, and they do not know which point or sequence is the part they should take into consideration during the preference period. For this reason, the best advice about the issue to the students is that if there is a Y-expression against the points, this means the ‘Placement Point and Sequence’ column. In short, after analysing the points, the students should look at the points of Y-TYT, Y-SAY(Quantitative), Y-EA(Equally-Weighted), Y-SÖZ(Verbal), Y-DİL(Foreign Language), and their sequence in the test result document.”

SHOULD THEY CONSIDER THE SUCCESS SEQUENCE OR POINT SEQUENCE?

Emphasizing that the students need to make the preference according to the success or point sequence, Ms. Karahancı said: “After examining the results of the exam, the first thing that comes to mind is whether students will prefer according to the success sequence or according to the point? Particularly while preferring an undergraduate program (for 4,5,6 years), it is necessary to pay regard to the success sequence. While preferring an associate program (for 2 years), the preference can be made according to the point as well as the success sequence.”

HOW TO CALCULATE THE ULTIMATE POINT IN 2019?

Explaining how to calculate the ultimate point, Ms. Karahancı said: “The student will use whichever point is the highest. The points will be converted into points corresponding to these percentile values in 2019-TYT by taking as a reference the percentile values of prospective students whose 2018-TYT exam point is 200 and above. The converted points may be higher or lower than the 2018-TYT points of the prospective students, ranging from 200-500 points. The numerical value which is obtained by multiplying the percentage of success sequence of the prospective students in the relevant year to the number of prospective students with 200 and more points from TYT in the same year by 100 is named as the ‘percentile value’ of the prospective students.”

ATTENTION TO THE DEPARTMENTS WITH THE CONDITION OF SUCCESS SEQUENCE

Warning the students to pay attention while preferring the departments with the condition of success sequence, Ms. Karahancı said: “The student cannot prefer the departments if they do not meet the minimum success condition. The departments with success sequence condition and their success sequence are as follows: Law – EA - 190.000, Medicine – SAY – 50.000, Architecture – SAY – 250.000, to the Placements of Engineering programs (except for Faculty of Forest, Agriculture and Aquaculture, including Faculty of Agriculture Food Engineering Program) SAY - 300.000, to the Placements of Teaching Programs (including Psychological Counselling and Guidance) - Related Point Type – 300.000.”

“DO NOT PREFER THE DEPARTMENT WHICH YOU WILL NOT ENROLL IN”

Stating that students need to research the department and the university they want to go to before they prefer and giving suggestions about not being afraid of making a useless preference, Ms. Karahancı said: “Students are really afraid of making a useless preference. What we call a useless preference in the YKS placement system can only be that if students do not enrol in the department that they do not want to study in the first place, which they prefer with the fear of not being placed in any department. Because the students may not enrol in case they do not like the university or the department, or they regret enrolling later. When they want to take the exam again in the next year, their High School Success Point (OBP) falls by half. Therefore, it would be useful to extendedly research their desired departments and universities during the preference days. The preferences are not useless, but they make the students regret.”

THEY HAVE 24 PREFERENTIAL RIGHTS

Reminding that students can 24 preferential rights in the YKS preference, Ms. Karahancı said: “Students can use all of these 24 preferential rights or make a single preference. While preparing the list, they should include the universities they dream of. They should devote a lot of space to departments and universities close to their sequences. If they are afraid of not being placed any department at all, they should definitely prefer places with less sequence than their own. Students who pass the minimum required score of all types can prefer any of them.”

“DO NOT BE DISAPPOINTED”

Underlining that students need to be careful during the preference days, Ms. Karahancı continued her speech as follows:
“They have to pay attention to the conditions of foundation universities and scholarship and not to misspell the program codes when entering the system. Some programs have special requirements. Students who do not meet these requirements may be disappointed during the enrolment. It is a good idea for the school’s top students to prefer places close to their score and they can only use this right in the year of graduation from the university. If they wish, they can prepare their own lists with the help of preference robots. It is also useful for them to make their preferences with experts in this field. We, as IGU, provide both preference robots to our prospective students and provide free preference consultancy services at our university between 18^th and 29^th of July.”