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YÖS test

About the ios test

Yabancı Uyruklu Öğrenci Sınavı

It is a local Turkish test that is not recognized globally, conducted by most Turkish universities. It is an abbreviation of Yabancı Uyruklu Öğrenci Sınavı, which means in Turkish the test of foreign students. The Yös test is a prerequisite for admission to Turkish public universities.

The rate that students obtain from the Yös test is an important factor that has a major role in raising the rate that the student obtained in his secondary certificate, which provides the student with the possibility to apply for registration in colleges with high rates, such as medicine and pharmacy.

Where is the IOS test held?
Each university determines the place where the test is held, and it is inside its campus, and the student must come personally to the university campus to attend this test. The only university that the student can attend this test in his country is Istanbul University, where there are 65 countries. Istanbul has it and the cost of this test varies from one university to another, and it is paid by bank transfer to the university’s account.
How can I prepare for the IOS test?
Students can prepare for the Yös test by means of the curriculum and many books in Turkish and English, which are scattered in Turkish cities and each subject has its own book. It may take three to five months to prepare for this test.

Because of the importance of that test, there are many educational institutes that offer lectures on the YOS method, but these lectures may take 7-8 months if they are regular courses, or 4 months in the case of intensive courses.

Registration for the YOS test is available every year from February or March until June, and the test date for each university can be known through its official website, where the university sets the test date, and the student must adhere to the specified date.
ios test questions

In general, the YOS test consists of:

  1. Math questions: usually 80 questions
  2. Logic and intelligence questions: to measure the student's mental abilities and ability to think, which are mostly 40 questions
  3. Geometry topics (includes one book) and recently another topic has been added about questions that include math problems and this has been applied starting in 2017 in different universities, and their number is mostly 5 questions

It is worth noting that there is no fixed distribution of questions, as the distribution of questions in the YOS test differs from one university to another, but different universities offer questions that revolve around assessing the student’s level of intellectual intelligence and his ability to mathematical analysis. The difference in the distribution of questions is due to the vision of each university, the method of screening students, knowing their capabilities, and making a comparison on this basis. The student must know these percentages and these details for each test before starting to register for it, and what is specifically required of him to obtain an excellent result that gives the student priority in the differentiation.


The time allotted for the test in most universities is 100 minutes to answer 80 questions, and therefore the time allotted for each question is 1.15 minutes.

Universities use different abbreviations to refer to this test, as they usually put the word “yos” and before it put the abbreviation of the university itself to indicate that the test is affiliated with the university and not other universities.

ÖSYM Foundation has announced its TRYÖS exam date for 2023
The exam is on: 01/29/2023
Registration start: 11/24/2022
Registration ends: 05/12/2022
Examination fees and centers:
800 Turkish liras for students taking the exam in (Turkey - Saudi Arabia - Germany - Iran - Northern Cyprus)
250 Turkish liras for students taking the exam in (Tunisia - Algeria - Libya - Indonesia - Kirkizstan - Afghanistan - Pakistan - Turkmenistan)
150 Turkish liras for students taking the exam in (Lebanon - Jordan - Sudan - Chad - Nigeria - Niger - Senegal - Ethiopia)
Exam details:
Exam languages: Turkish with a choice of translation into one of the following languages (Arabic – German – French – English – Russian)
 Exam duration: 100 minutes
 Number of questions: 80 questions (40 IQ and 40 Math)
 4 wrong questions delete a correct answer
Register for the test over here