State Matura will take over 15,000 students, the most interest in English test

15,004 candidates have been reported to take the two external exams from this year’s state high school exam, which will be conducted on May 31 and 11 June. Of these, 8,816 students are from vocational high schools, 5,966 gymnasiums and 222 of art schools.

-Preparations for organizing the state high school graduation are flowing according to the anticipated dynamics. The latest preparations for the realization of the exams are being made-Daniela Jovchevska-Mihajlovska, director of the State Examination Center (DIC), told MIA, two weeks before taking the first external exam-native language and literature, which is mandatory for all students.

According to DIC data, 9,969 students were reported for the Macedonian language exam, 4,339 for Albanian language, 292 for Turkish language and 10 Serbian language students.

The second external exam from the State Matura, which is elective for students, will be taken on June 11. As in previous years, most of this state high school have chosen to take English (13,457).

1,246 students have applied for the math test, 73 will take German, 24 – French, 62 – aesthetics. There are seven candidates for the philosophy test, four for Russian language and three for Italian. For the supervision of the exam process, DIC will engage about 2,000 testators.

Graduates will take the state high school graduation in their schools if they meet the necessary standards for conducting the exams. For schools that do not have spatial conditions, the DIC will allow the passage to be conducted at the faculties on the basis of the demands provided by the affected schools. Soon on its website DIC will publish a schedule with locations or students from which schools where they will take.

-All schools that meet the spatial opportunities, in accordance with the Rulebook on organizing a state high school, which means a meter and a half distance before and behind the student and from the side, have the opportunity to take into the large rooms they have in schools, which are gym or holes. For other schools, which do not have such opportunities or do not meet the spatial conditions, the state high school graduation will be organized at other locations, more precisely at the faculties-said Jovchevska-Mihajlovska.

The State Examination Center in the past period has asked the school boards or the school boards to analyze the spatial conditions and, if they are not able to organize graduation in their schools, to submit a request for an alternative space.

The DIC principal says there are more such schools in the country, but unlike in previous years when, as he said, for taking graduation in sports halls at other schools, they themselves provided and transported benches and chairs, this year they will be provided with faculties where everything will be set.

The idea of ​​setting up mobile phones and other electronic devices that would disable copies and other abuses of the exams will not be realized this year, but that option, says Jovchevska-Mihajlovska, remains for the future.

On the eve of taking the external exams and in preparation for the final exam – DIC has published in the past period of previous years along with the correct answers that help high school graduates as preparatory material. In addition to the external exams, part of the state high school exams are two internal examinations and a project task.

High school graduates who will not pass the state high school exam or not fully in the June exam session will be able to take the August session – on August 12th is the mother -language exam (Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Serbian) and literature, and on August 14, the language, English language, English language, aesthetics).

Last 2023/2024, the average assessment of the state high school graduation was 3.25, in 2023 it was 3.65, in 2022 the average examination of the exams was 3.78 and 3.61 in 2021.

The state high school graduation in our education system has been implemented since 2007, in June and August exam session. The only way was not organized at the end of the 2019/2020 school year due to Covid Pandemia.