GAT and PAT exams deferred
Flooding across the Kingdom has resulted in the General Aptitude Test (GAT)/Professional Aptitude Test (PAT) exams being postponed from October 8-11 until November 5-6 and November 12-13.
Education Minister Woravat Auapinyakul said yesterday that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was concerned about the floods’ impact on many of the 329,519 students taking the test nationwide, and that 38 of the 236 exam sites were under water.
Woravat consulted the National Institute of Educational Testing Service, the Office of the Higher Education Commission and the Council of University Presidents of Thailand and they reached the conclusion that the exam dates should be postponed to November.
Waters halt train
A Bangkok-bound sprinter train stopped its journey in Phichit yesterday because of the flooding and its passengers were transferred to buses.
The train’s driver decided to cancel the trip out of Chiang Mai after finding the railway tracks in Phichit’s Muang district were under more than 25 centimetres of flood water.
More than 500 passengers had to switch to the buses.
Light relief stressed
Comedians have offered to cheer up flood victims free of charge.
Thai Comedian Association president Sornsutta Klanmalee, alias Tuarae Chernyim, yesterday called on Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to discuss the offer.
“We want to ease the stress of affected people. We can accompany mobile medical units,” he said.
After the floods that have continued to deluge the country for months, thousands of people have come down with depression.
The Nation
