Over 502,800 eighth-graders in 12,600 schools nationwide are expected to sit the three-part primary-school-leaving examination this year, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
On Wednesday, students will take a math test, followed by a foreign language exam a day later.
An overwhelming 97.8 percent of eighth-graders have opted for English as their foreign language of choice, while 1.9 percent will be taking a test in German and the remaining 0.3 percent in French, Italian, Russian or Spanish, according to officials.
14,400 Ukrainian teens taking end-of-school exams in Poland
Meanwhile, those taking end-of-primary-school exams include some 14,400 Ukrainian teenagers, the PAP news agency reported.
They have been granted "special adjustments," such as an extended time limit for the Polish exam and having math and foreign-language test questions translated into Ukrainian, officials said.
Results to be announced in July
Passing the final exams is necessary to graduate from primary school and the exam scores are a key criterion for admission to high school, having equal weight to a student’s end-of-year grades and “other achievements” taken together, the PAP news agency reported.
The results of the primary-school-leaving exams will be published nationwide on July 3, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
(pm/gs)
Source: IAR, PAP, interia.pl
