Pre-reading materials for the joint application entrance exams

Celia’s customers living in Finland can order pre-reading materials for entrance examinations to a Finnish higher education institution in an accessible format from the Accessibility Library Celia.

If the material in question is not related to the joint application process, please contact Celia’s customer service by email palvelut@celia.fi.

Contents

• Pre-reading materials for entrance exams to higher education
  If you are applying to an institution of higher education in the joint application system, follow these steps
  Books as pre-reading materials for entrance exams
  Articles and collections of articles as pre-reading materials for entrance exams
• Information for higher education institutions on accessible entrance exams (in Finnish)
• Read more about Accessibility Library Celia’s principles for publishing teaching materials (in Finnish)

Pre-reading materials for entrance exams to higher education

A customer applying in the joint application process must send an acquisition request form regarding accessible pre-reading materials to Celia no later than on the last day of the joint application process: 27 March 2024. Acquisition request forms that arrive late will not be processed.

Accessible pre-reading materials cannot be borrowed until after the university has published the pre-reading materials.

Celia does not produce pre-reading materials for entrance examinations if they are available in an accessible format from the higher education institution on the day of publication. In this case, the university in question is responsible for the accessibility of the pre-reading material.

If you are applying to an institution of higher education in the joint application system, follow these steps

• If you are not yet a customer at Celia and you have a print disability, you must first register as a customer.
• Order pre-reading material for entrance exam you are participating in using Celia’s acquisition request form (link below).
• Tell us on the form where you are applying to. You do not need to know the entrance exam books when you are ordering them.

Go to the acquisition request.

Books as pre-reading materials for entrance exams

• The entrance examination books are primarily produced as DaisyTrio books read by a synthetic voice in Finnish, Swedish or English, according to the original language. Books in other languages can in some cases be produced, but only as accessible e-books without sound. In some cases, entrance examination books can be produced as e-books.
• A book is produced if it is not available in an accessible format elsewhere, for example as a publisher’s e-book that is accessible using a listening or reading aid.
• Celia does not produce upper secondary school textbooks as pre-reading materials for entrance examinations; many publishers’ digital textbooks can be listened to nowadays.
• Celia does not make coursebooks into audiobooks read by a human voice.

Articles and collections of articles as pre-reading materials for entrance exams

• Articles are primarily produced as DaisyTrio books read by a synthetic voice in Finnish, Swedish or English, according to the original language.
• For other languages, read more about reading and listening aids  that enable you to listen to articles.