Creative Competition (competition of creative and/or physical abilities) – a form of entrance examination for admission based on the Unified State Examination (USE) and the Junior Specialist degree/Associate Degree in Vocational Education/Bachelor’s Degree in Vocational Education, which involves the demonstration and assessment of the applicant’s creative and/or physical abilities (including previously acquired specialized education) necessary for obtaining higher education in a specialty included in the List of Specialties, admission to which is based on the level of applicants’ creative and/or physical abilities as specified in Appendix 1 to the Admission Procedure, and is conducted within a single day (the assessment results are published no later than the following day).