From the seventeen hundred yearly applicants only about six hundred pass the entrance exam. From these, the top 250 applicants make up the new freshman class. Minimum passing score is 40, with top applicants scoring above 80 percent. As can be seen in Table 1, average scores are below the passing figure. The above information also illustrates general differences among subjects and countries.
Mathematics consistently stands out as the subject with the lowest scores.
There also are differences between rural and urban areas with applicants from rural areas consistently scoring below those from larger cities. Including the more established fields of economic importance, such as agriculture, public and private support for science in general is still low. Employment opportunities in technical fields are growing in industry and services, but demand for scientists remains relatively small. Private nonprofit organizations dedicated to scientific research and development are few. The truth is that science education can hardly flourish r conditions of poverty and social unrest.