Next week the entrance exams to the Standards will be held schools, as well as the public lottery for admission to the Experimental. In total, there are 4,797 vacancies for admissions nationwide: 3,003 are for Experimental schools and 1,794 for Standards.
This year, the number of available places, as well as the number of applications for admission to these schools, has increased significantly compared to previous years. More specifically, according to sources from the Ministry of Education, a total of 20,299 applications were submitted. Of these, 10,845 places concern the filling of the 3,003 places of the Experimental schools and 9,454 applications concern the admission to the Standard schools and the filling of 1,794 places.
The process
The final allocation of Standard and Ecclesiastical school candidates to examination centers, as well as their information about the examination center in which they will be examined, will be made through the electronic application system and via SMS on May 14 and 15 and will be posted on the website of each examination center .
Parents must then check and print their application to present on the day of the exams together with proof of identity (police ID for those candidates over 12 years, ID from KEP for candidates under 12 or passport for all applicants).
It is reminded that the date of the public lottery for admission to the Experimental Schools and the allocation of the random Priority Number, in case of a tie in the Standard Schools, is Friday, May 17, 2024.
Regarding the admission to the Standards, the exams for the admission of the students to the entrance classes (A’ Gymnasium/A’ Lyceum) of the Standards and to the A’ Gymnasium/A’ Lyceum classes of the Church schools will be held on Saturday, May 18.
As is already known, the prospective students will be assessed in two academic subjects, language and mathematics. Assessment questions will be closed-ended/multiple choice. Candidates for Church Schools will be additionally examined in the religion course.
According to the ministry, students will be assessed on skills acquired during their studies in Primary School or High School, as the case may be, related to the understanding of Greek language texts and mathematical concepts, and they are not required to have studied specific material to prepare for their participation in said test.
In more detail, regarding the distribution of places, the 3,000 places in the Experimental schools concern 472 places in kindergartens, 905 in primary schools, 1,212 in middle schools and 411 in high schools. The 1,800 positions of the standards concern 1,575 high school and 225 high school positions.
The Application System has been developed by the Steering Committee of Model and Experimental Schools (DEPPS) with the support of the Institute of Education Policy (IEP). The design, implementation, management, operation and application of the software of its electronic lottery as well as the software for extracting the results for each Experimental School has been developed by the Institute of Computer Technology & Publications (ITYE) – “Diofantos”.
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