CONTENTS Page 1. Introduction & Method of Entry … … … … … 4 2. Subjects … … … … … … … … 4 3. Submission of Entries … … … … … … 5 4. Transfer of Candidates … … … … … … 5 5. Special Consideration … … … … … … 5 6. Provisional List of Candidates and Entry Verification Forms … 5 7. Final List of Candidates and Timetables … … … … 6 8. Correction/Change of Name … … … … … 6 9. User Guide … … … … … … … 7
Note that the NIC must be 14 characters long. If the first letter of the NIC does not match the first letter of the candidate surname or the first six digits in the NIC does not correspond to the date of birth of the candidate then a message is displayed. 18. Enter the candidate’s full address in the Address textboxes. Here you have four lines to enter the full address. Please note that the full address of each candidate is required for Admission to Form I purposes. Press Enter to move down from one textbox to another. 19. Enter the candidate’s email address or the candidate’s responsible party’s email address in textbox Email Address of Cand. / Resp. Party if it is available. 20. Click on any one of ‘Optional Core’ subject to select it. The options available are Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Modern Chinese, Arabic and Kreol Morisien. If the candidate will not take any Optional Core subject then select Nil. 21. If the candidate has sat for the CPE Examinations previously, select options Second or Third for Sitting, otherwise choose option First. However, if options Second or Third is selected, the previous qualifications obtained by the candidate in his/her first or second sitting for the CPE Examinations must also be entered. This is done by selecting an option from ‘Radio button’ Previous Qualification. The options available here are Pass, Fail and Absent. 22. Click on ‘Prevoc. Cand.’ to choose either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. If the candidate is a pre-vocational candidate then choose ‘Yes’, otherwise choose ‘No’. 23. After having entered all the above information you must save it. This is done by clicking on button Save found on the Navigation Toolbar. If for any reason, you do not want to save the information entered (i.e you want to cancel an entry) click on button Revert. Note : The information in textbox Eligibility is for display purposes only. It cannot be modified. Use the Tab key to move from a ‘Radio Button’ to another ‘Radio Button’ or from a ‘Radio button’ to a textbox.
b. In Windows 7 Right click on icon ‘PSAC Candidate Entry 2017‘ on desktop. Select ‘Open File Location’. ‘Windows Explorer’ is opened. Double click on folder ‘Data’. Select file ‘Candidate.dbf’ and copy it to a CD or pen drive. NOTE : You will notice that there are 2 files named Candidate under folder Data. One file has extension .dbf and the other .cdx. The file that should be sent to the MES is ‘Candidate.dbf’. If the extension is not visible in your computer, right click on the file and select ‘Properties’. The full name of the file will be displayed. Sending Data by Email Kindly specify the school name and school code in the title of the email. Please note that the email address on which file ‘Candidate.dbf’ should be sent is psacentries@mesonline.mu. Files sent to other email addresses will not be considered.