Potentially high loss of loss / day

The Ministry of Education and Science has decided not to raise the minimum indicator of the 9th grade centralized exam (CE) this school year, leaving it at 10%. Such a step is taken, as there are concerns that many elementary school graduates may not be able to do so (last year did not reach around 2000 pupils) and schools will have to look for solutions to do with the fallen. The Ministry of Education and Science claims that this bar is not frozen and will be raised next year. In secondary education, however, there will be no derogations and the minimum threshold for CE will be 20%.

Many do not pass mathematics

In 2024, 729 pupils fell out of CE: 593 – in mathematics, 88 in Latvian, 156 in English. The 15% limit was not overcome by about 2,000 elementary school graduates: 1663 in mathematics, 239 in Latvian, 296 in English. This school year, 696 students who did not successfully pass any of the national tests in the previous examination session. Meanwhile, those who did not take exams in 2022/2023. and did so again next school year, 13.2% again did not pass them, Kristine Niedre-Lathere, Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Science, said at a press conference.