article_snippet.sent: Pupils applying to Cambridge University may have to take an entrance test next year for the first time in almost 30 years.
article_snippet.sent: Tutors are deciding whether to bring back the exams, which would be designed to select the exceptional applicants.
article_snippet.sent: Cambridge University said recent changes to the exams system made it more difficult to decide which students to admit.
article_snippet.sent: Pupils applying to Cambridge University may have to take an entrance test next year for the first time in almost 30 years .
article_snippet.sent: According to trade magazine Schools Week, documents presented to senior tutors say Cambridge University is ‘being forced’ into changing Cambridge University system of using AS-levels to assess applicants.
article_snippet.sent: The paper says that GCSEs ‘will not give us a reliable measure’ due to GCSEs ‘ ongoing reform and that ‘schools’ predictions of grades will be next to useless’.
article_snippet.sent: At present, Cambridge University uses unified mark scheme (UMS) scores calculated from students’ performance in students AS-levels - which are known when students apply to university - to decide which applicants are invited to interview.
article_snippet.sent: University departments have now been asked for University departments views on a ‘main proposal’ to reintroduce the tests from the 2016-17 admissions round.
article_snippet.sent: Mike Sewell, director of admissions for the Cambridge colleges, said:
article_snippet.sent: In the light of the recent A-level reforms, Cambridge University is in the process of considering all options available so that we may continue meeting we goal of admitting the best and brightest students from all backgrounds.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Cambridge University already uses subject-specific aptitude tests.
article_snippet.sent: Most of Cambridge University admission tests are organised by the Admissions Testing Service.
highlights_snippet.sent: Pupils applying to Cambridge University may have to take an entrance test .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Exams could be introduced next year and would help select best applicants .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Cambridge University says changes to exams has made it harder to choose students .