The Turkish Foreign Student Admission Examination (TR-YÖS), conducted by ÖSYM, is an exam that students who wish to study at higher education institutions in Turkey can take and use the results when applying for admission to these institutions.
Foreign candidates,
Candidates who are Turkish citizens by birth but who have received permission from the Ministry of Interior to renounce Turkish citizenship or who have not received a blue card, (it does not matter where the candidate completed his/her secondary education)
Candidates who have acquired Turkish citizenship with the citizenship acquired later while they were foreign nationals or candidates with dual nationality in this situation, (it does not matter where the candidate completed his/her secondary education)
Turkish national students who continue their secondary education (high school) abroad and complete their entire secondary education (the last three years of secondary education for candidates who continued their secondary education abroad before 01/02/2013)
Candidates who have completed their education in a foreign country except TRNC, including those who have completed their education in Turkish schools opened by the Ministry of National Education,
Candidates who have TRNC nationality, reside in TRNC and have completed their secondary education (high school) in TRNC and have GCE AL exam results, and candidates who graduated from educational institutions in other countries between 2005-2010 and have GCE AL exam results, applications are accepted.
In addition, candidates who will apply for exams must graduate from high school or equivalent schools or be in graduation status. However, there is no obstacle for students who are not in graduation status to participate in the exams.
There is no limit to the number of applicants for the exams, and any student, regardless of age or nationality, can take the exams.
Applications are made every year in the date intervals determined by ÖSYM exam calendar. Applications are accepted online by ÖSYM through the TR-YOS Candidate Transactions system.
2024 Turkish Foreign Student Admission Examination (TR-YOS) will be held in 78 centres in 52 countries. Every year, domestic and international exam centres are published in the exam guide.
Exams are held in the cities where the universities are located and in many centers in Turkey and abroad.
It has been organised by ÖSYM (Turkish Assessment, Placement and Selection Centre) since 2023 in order to attract more qualified and more international students to universities in Turkey.
Turkey Foreign Student Admission Examination (TR-YÖS) fee, although it varies according to countries, is included in the exam guide in detail.
TR-YÖS 2024/1 exam fees are determined as follows;
TURKEY, TRNC, GERMANY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ARNAVUTUS, AZERBAIJAN, BOSNAHERSEK, BULGARIA, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS, IRAQ, LIBYA, MALEZIA, EGYPT, ROMANIA, RUSSIA and SAUDI
For candidates who will take the exam in Arabia: 2.250,00 TL
ALGERIA, INDONESIA, MOROCCO, INDIA, KAZAKHSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, NORTH MACEDONIA, MONGOLIA,
For candidates who will take the exam in MOLDOVA, UZBEKISTAN, PAKISTAN, TACIKISTAN, TUNUS and URDUNIA : 1.050,00 TL
AFGHANISTAN, BANGLADESH, DJIBOUTI, CHAD, ETHIOPIA, CÔTE D’IVOIRE, GABON, GHANA, GUINEA,
For candidates who will take the exam in CAMERUN, KENYA, CONGO, MALI, MORITANIA, NIGERIA, NIGERIA, SENEGAL, SOMALIA, TANZANIA and UGANDA: 750,00 TL
In the exam, candidates will be administered a Quantitative Aptitude Test and a Basic Mathematics Test. There will be 40 questions in the Quantitative Aptitude Test and 40 questions in the Basic Mathematics Test.
The exam duration is 100 minutes.
The content of the exam includes questions from Basic Mathematics (30 questions + 10 Geometry) and Quantitative Aptitude (IQ) (40 questions). The questions asked in the Basic Mathematics tests are from the subjects included in the 9-10 and 11th grade curriculum of secondary education in Turkey. General Aptitude (IQ) questions generally consist of questions that measure the candidate’s ability to comprehend numerical relationships and the ability to think abstractly.
TR-YOS has a minimum score of 100 and a maximum score of 500. There is a base point application in placement procedures by universities and it varies according to faculties.
The answers given to the tests applied in the exam will be evaluated separately for each test. A standard score will be calculated for each test. Standard scores will be calculated as follows:
The number of correct and incorrect answers given by each candidate to the tests will be determined. By subtracting one fourth of the number of wrong answers from the number of correct answers, the raw score of the candidate from the relevant test will be found.
The mean and standard deviation of the test will be found by using the raw scores of the candidates from the relevant test.
Using this mean and standard deviation, standard scores with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10 will be calculated for all candidates.
The calculated standard scores will be weighted with a coefficient of 0.45 for the Quantitative Aptitude Test and 0.55 for the Basic Mathematics Test and the weighted scores of the candidates will be calculated. In order to calculate weighted scores, candidates must have a raw score of 0.5 or more from at least one of the testsis required. Weighted scores will not be calculated for candidates who do not fulfil this condition.
The weighted scores will be converted into scores, the lowest of which is 100 and the highest of which is 500, and the TR-YOS score will be formed.
According to the statistics of recent years, the most common nationalities of the applicants are
Turkey, Azerbaijan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Somalia, Morocco, Yemen, Egypt, Nigeria, USA, France, Jordan.
Although the numbers vary from exam to exam and from year to year; The total number of participants and the percentile are published in the candidate result document published by ÖSYM.
