What Teachers and Students Think about Medical and Dental Admission Test Conducted by ETEA, NWFP, Pakistan

The purpose of the study was to ascertain the opinions of teachers & students of Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar, Pakistan about entry test conducted by Educational Testing and Evaluation Agency (ETEA), from the last 10 years, as criteria for admission to Dental colleges of NWFP. Sample of the study was 15 Khyber College of Dentistry (KCD) teachers who were selected out of 30 teachers through simple random sampling and 140 dental students(representing students from 1st to final year), selected through Stratified random sampling procedure, in which 60 and 80 were male and female respectively. The data was collected through two questionnaires i.e. one for Teachers and another for Students. Questions were about their opinions about entry test weight age, format, exclusion and inclusion of subjects in the test and suggestions for the possible improvement of the entry test. The information collected through the questionnaires was tabulated and were analyzed in percentage and Chisquare. Majority of the students were in favour of entry test for selection while some of the teachers were against entry test. Majority of the students were satisfied with the existing criteria (F.Sc marks + Entry test marks) while the number of teachers are in favour of F.Sc marks only. Most of the students are satisfied with entry test format but the large number of teachers are not satisfied with entry test format. Higher education commission (HEC) was recommended by the large number of teachers and students for conducting entry test instead of ETEA.