The week of written exams opens on Tuesday with an external test and a style work on the Slovak language and literature. 38,567 students graduate from them. The same awaits 1,634 high school graduates with the Hungarian language of instruction from the subject Hungarian language and literature, the Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic said.
Part of the students will also complete their matriculation exams electronically on Tuesday. “More than 95 percent of schools and 6,427 students are registered,” zoomed in from the department for TASR. At the same time, they confirmed that students registered for the electronic matura will write the test on a computer in a safe and stable testing system, while they will also have a paper answer sheet as a backup throughout the exam. As they added, in case of technical complications, it is possible to smoothly switch to paper form without jeopardizing the regularity of the exam.
The topics of the written form of the internal part of the language of instruction exam will be drawn and announced via a live broadcast on STVR – Radio Slovakia on Tuesday at 12:20 p.m. At the same time, they will be published on the website of the Ministry of Education, the Center for Scientific and Technical Information of the Slovak Republic – school computing centers and the National Institute of Education and Youth.
More than 42,000 high school graduates from 614 high schools are waiting for their written exams this week. Until March 13, they will verify their knowledge of the Slovak language and literature, of a foreign language, mathematics and, in the case of pupils of Hungarian and Ukrainian nationality, also of their mother tongue.
On Wednesday, March 11, all high school graduates will write an external test and a composition paper in a compulsory foreign language at the B1 or B2 level. For students of bilingual secondary schools without an international agreement, an external test and a compositional work from the second language of instruction, i.e. from a foreign language at the C1 level, are determined in this term.
Thursday, March 12, will belong to high school graduates who have chosen mathematics as an optional or voluntary subject. The graduation week will conclude with an external test and a style work on the Slovak language and Slovak literature and on the Ukrainian language and literature.which will be completed on Friday, March 13 by students of schools of national minorities.
