The announcement was made online at around 4.40pm - about 40 minutes late.

Ohec secretary-general Pavich Thongroj said his office waited until noon yesterday for the Education Ministry's GPA centre to submit the adjusted grade point average (GPA) and accumulative grade-point average (GPAX) of 242 students who had completed Grade 12 before the 2005 academic year.

"But no information was forthcoming. So, we had to rely on grades filed by applicants instead," he said.

Pavich said Ohec will retroactively remove the students from the list of successful candidates if it is found later that they supplied falsely high grades.

This year marks the first time students' grades from senior secondary education account for 30 per cent of weighting when it comes to university admission criteria. Last year, the grades accounted for only 10 per cent.

Due to the increased weighting, a number of students demanded that the Education Ministry re-grade them because they completed Grade 12 before the 2005 academic year and their grading system had only five categories: 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. From the 2005 academic year on, students have been given eight categories of grades: 0, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 and 4.

Following some protests, the ministry approved a re-grading plan for those students who completed Grade 12 before the 2005 academic year but applied for university admission this year.

The group numbered 2,881 under the Ohec-organised direct-admission system.

A senior education official, Suchart Wongsuwan, said yesterday that the ministry's GPA centre submitted adjusted grades for more than 2,500 of the applicants but could not supply adjusted grades for 242 others because there was no information from their schools.

"We are trying to act as a co-ordinator for Ohec and the schools," he said.

Of more than 42,000 applicants under the Ohec-organised direct admission system, only 8,781 have been successful.

Pavich said the results of the central admission system will be released on May 24.

Commission (Ohec) yesterday blamed an incomplete grade list of more than 200 students for the delayed announcement of successful applicants for interviews under its direct university-admission system.

The announcement was made online at around 4.40 pm yesterday, about 40 minutes late.

Ohec secretary general Pavich Thongroj said his office waited until noon yesterday for the Education Ministry's GPA centre to submit the adjusted grade point average (GPA) and accumulative grade-point average (GPAX) of 242 students who completed Grade 12 before 2005 academic year.

"But no information on this part is coming. So, we have to rely on grades filled by applicants instead," he said.

Pavich said Ohec would retroactively remove the students from the list of successful candidates if it was found later that they supplied falsely high grades.

This year marks the first time students' grades from senior-secondary education account for 30 per cent of weighting when it comes to university admission criteria. Last year, the grades accounted for only 10 per cent.

Due to the increased weighting, a number of students earlier demanded that the Education Ministry re-graded them because they completed Grade 12 before 2005 academic year and their grade system had only five categories: 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. But from 2005 academic year, the students are given eight categories of grades: 0, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 and 4.

Following some protest, the Education Ministry has approved a re-grading plan for students who completed Grade 12 before 2005 academic year but applied for universities this year.

This group of applicants numbered 2,881 under the Ohec-organised direct-admission system.

A senior education official, Suchart Wongsuwan, yesterday explained that the GPA centre completely submitted the adjusted grades of more than 2,500 applicants but could not submit the adjusted grades of 242 other applicants because there were no information from their schools at all.

"We are trying to act as a co-ordinator for Ohec and these schools," he said.

Of more than 42,000 applicants under Ohec-organised direct admission system, only 8,781 were the successful.

On the upcoming results of the central admission system, Pavich said the results would be officially released on May 24.