Chossing what we want to study is our right

1. Entrance examination instead of the current Algerian universities’ system of admission
Many Algerian students are studying in faculties they did not choose to be
students in. A considerable number of them are competent in what they want to
study, but the universities’ admission system did not allow them to do so. For this
category of students, this system is unfair, that is why, Entrance Exam System of
Admission should replace the one used in Algerian universities. This article will
exemplify the inequitable current system of admission and argue why taking
entrance exams is the suitable way to be fair with those students.
‘It is difficult to study in a field you do not like and you did not choose in the
first place’, that what any student may say. What about the ones who really deserve
to study in a given faculty, what would they say? It is the case of many students in
Foreign Languages Faculty of Médea University. Billel Skanderi is a student in
French department, he did not choose to study there, but his baccalaureate
average did not allow him to join the English department, although he is excellent in
the English language. He proved that to his friends through a forum he joined but
not to the faculty’s administration because it did not give him the opportunity to
prove his capabilities.
Billel chose to carry on his studies in French department, unlike Mariem
Ahmed Khoudja, an American girl from Algerian origins. When she was 12 years
old, her family decided to come and live in Algeria, when she entered to Algerian
middle school, she found a lot of difficulties because she could not understand the
Arabic language .Studying English in university was the only solution for her. When
she got her baccalaureate exam last year, she was sent to study sociology, she
made recourse but it did not work, so ’she gave up her studies’.
These two examples proved that the procedures of admission are unfair for
Billel, Mariem and many other students in different faculties in Algerian universities.
In order to put an end to that, it is needed to replace these procedures with others
which provide to these students places in faculties they want to study in .
As an alternative to the current system of admission, Entrance examination is
suggested. What is Entrance examination? Entrance exams are tests that one may
take to be accepted in a school, college, university … in which he can prove his
qualities and competence in a particular field. So this kind of admission system
gives these students the opportunity to prove themselves and provides the faculties
with qualified students only.
To sum up, this category of students is marginalized in the Algerian universities. So it is
required to replace the current system of admission with new one which guarantees all the
students’ right to study in the field in which they are capable and provides efficiency to the
faculties.

2. Having qualified students only in faculties is something crucial , and the
permanent system did not reach this point , because of the conditions