UP Waives UPCAT for Second Straight Year

The University of the Philippines system will forego its UPCAT entrance exam for the second straight year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, school authorities said Tuesday,

For academic years 2022 to 2023, UP said it would again screen freshman applicants based on their high school performance, subject to refinement by a "working group of experts". 

Normally, applicants would have to submit physical documents as requirements so they could take the entrance test administered in UP campuses and over 95 testing centers across the country. 

But last year, for the first time in recent history, UP waived the UPCAT and put in place a virtual application process that screened applications based on what it calls an Admissions Scoring Model.