Yeliz TEMLÄ° DURMUÅ [1] , BaÅak KASA [2]
Since the establishment of the Republic until the 1960s, there were a small number of high school graduates, so many faculties accepted these graduates without an examination in the placement of students who graduated from secondary education to higher education. In 1974, the Interuniversity Board approved that university entrance exams be held from a single center and established the Interuniversity Student Selection and Placement Center (ÜSYM) on 19 November 1974, based on Article 52 of the Universities Law No. 1750. In 1981, the Center was transformed into a subsidiary of the Council of Higher Education under the name of the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) with the 10th and 45th articles of the Higher Education Law numbered 2547. Since 1974, the preferences of the candidates regarding the higher education programs have also been collected and the candidates have been placed in higher education programs centrally according to their scores and preferences. Since 1982, diploma grades of candidates from secondary education institutions have started to be collected and these grades have been added to the exam scores with certain weights under the name of Secondary Education Success Score (OBP). Since 1987, candidates who have collected their preferences for higher education programs in certain fields have been given the opportunity to answer certain tests in the exam and not to answer others. In 1999, the second step of the two-level exam was removed and the exam was turned into a single-level exam under the name of ÖSS.
