Minister of Education Andrei Ivanets spoke about the features of the rehearsal centralized exam (CE), which is planned to be held in Belarus on January 27, 2024. Compared to the previous academic year, the tests will be more difficult, since they will include tasks of the fifth level of difficulty. The head of the Ministry of Education explained why they decided to add them to rehearsal tasks.
In general, they decided to conduct the rehearsal for the centralized exam in January next year according to the same rules as the centralized exam in May 2023. According to the relevant department, five thousand more students will take part in it – more than 58 thousand high school students, reported BelTA agency.
This time, schoolchildren were allowed to “rehearse” any school subject, including Russian or Belarusian (last school year there was no rehearsal CE in state languages), and they decided to add tasks of the fifth level of difficulty to the tests themselves (they will be like at the CE rehearsal, and during rehearsal testing (RT)).
“This was done in order to bring the assessment criteria at the school into full compliance with the assessment criteria of the centralized exam, which is the final form of certification of graduates,” Ivanets explained.
At the same time, the minister emphasized that the results of this rehearsal CE “will not affect anything,” and are being carried out only so that “11th grade graduates can go through the full exam procedure, starting with arrival, transportation (for those children who are in rural areas), filling out forms.”
At the same time, according to Ivanets, this is “a good opportunity to test your strength,” since it is assumed that the structure and complexity of tasks for the CE rehearsals “will fully correspond to the structure and complexity of the tests” at the CE itself and at centralized testing in 2024.
How will the scores for the CE and CT be calculated?
As for the calculation of test results, which is why this spring, after the publication of the results of the CE, the Ministry of Education was seriously criticized, then, according to Ivanets, the conversion scales for both primary scores into test scores and test scores into a ten-point assessment have not been changed and will be used last year. The department promised to process the results in two weeks, and to announce them to students no later than three weeks after testing.
The main days of the centralized exam for this academic year are scheduled for May 27 and 30 and, “in order to ensure equal and fair conditions” for current graduates and graduates of previous years who plan to enter universities next year, the Ministry of Education plans to conduct the CE and CT on the same dates .
Telegraf previously reported that in October, the Republican Institute for Knowledge Control (RIKZ) announced the start of the first stage of rehearsal testing (RT) to prepare for the centralized exam (CE) and centralized testing (CT) 2024. Belarusian schoolchildren and future applicants were offered to take RT in 15 academic subjects for a course of general secondary education. Find out how much it will cost.
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