The application-submission deadline is Tuesday.

Pavich said students could also update their scores, if they change, after they have submitted their applications.

This year marks the first year that the O-Net (Ordinary National Educational Test) and A-Net (Advanced National Educational Test) scores are being used as main university-admissions criteria.

However, all three rounds of the O-Net/A-Net score announcements have been mired by errors. The relevant authorities are now trying to solve the problems with the third round of announcements, which are said to be at a "manageable" level.

A number of temporary centres were set up to receive complaints from students having problems with their O-Net and A-Net scores between May 1 and May 6.

Of more than 8,900 complaints lodged, approximately 6,400 were reportedly tackled.

"After we solve the problems, we will update the students' scores on websites," Pavich said. He called on students to re-check their scores on websites.

Ohec stepped in to help solve the O-Net/A-Net problems after the National Institute of Education Testing Service (NIETS) twice voided the score announcements due to errors.

NIETS acting chairwoman Khunying Sumontha Phromboon said relevant officials would gradually update the scores.

Waraluk Supawatjariyakul, a student from Saraburi, said she would need an updated score report certified by NIETS to contact the Faculty of Medicine at Ramathibodi Hospital - her number 2 choice of higher-education institute. Waraluk added that she has already been accepted by the medical school that was her number 3 choice.

"So far, after checking my scores at a centre, I found that my scores are up two points. So I want to check whether the increased scores could get me accepted at my number 2 choice," she said.

Prof Dr Boonmee Sathapat-tayanont, a deputy dean of Rama-thibodi Hospital, said that the list of successful applicants were compiled based on official scores at 9pm on May 4.

She added that medical schools would announce the minimum scores accepted by each school on websites tomorrow.

"If you have higher scores, please contact the medical school you plan to enrol at," she said.

In a related development, caretaker Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang said he would support the open-ended question section in the O-Net and A-Net papers because it encouraged students' analytical thinking and could efficiently evaluate the students' academic knowledge.

"We won't back down," he said.

Following the O-Net/A-Net fiasco, many people have complained that the open-ended section may have been partly responsible for the problems.