Czech Education Minister wants to abolish entrance exams-press
Prague- New Czech Education Minister Dana Kuchtova from the minor government Green Party intends to abolish high school entrance exams, she told the daily Pravo today.

According to the daily Hospodarske noviny, more than half a million students study at high schools in the Czech Republic at present. Of them, 145,000 students study at grammar schools, 211,000 at vocational secondary schools and 164,000 students study at apprentice schools, Hospodarske noviny says.

If this really happens, one of the staples of your Czechs' lives will disappear (for the better). In the Czech educational system the leaving exams or grades from one level of the system are then double checked by entrance exams at the next. This has historically been done because there weren't enough places at the more prestigious institutions and also because there wasn't enough standardization across schools of the lower instance.

This MF Dnes article describes the current system in more detail.