The exam marathon begins: The most important thing for matriculation
With the mandatory matriculation exams, the examination marathon for thousands of students begins. Their knowledge will be checked in less than ten days. At the beginning of June, the exams of fourth -graders are forthcoming, and then the national external assessments for the 10th graders and those after the seventh grade, who determine the admission to the high schools, come.
The mandatory for all students is a Bulgarian language and literature matriculation on May 21st. Two days later – on May 23, is the second compulsory state matriculation exam. It is one of the profiling subjects studied in the 11th and 12th grade, or in theory of the profession for acquiring professional qualification for students from vocational high schools.
Exam scores enter the diploma for completed secondary education and serve to enter most universities. The deadline for announcing the results of the matriculation is June 11 inclusive.
Diary summarizes the most important for matriculation exams.
An identity document and a business note
The matriculation starts at 8.30 am, but the students should be at the school where they are distributed at least 30 minutes earlier. They must carry an identity document and the service note on admission to the exam that indicates the buildings and halls in which the exam will be held.
| Students will receive the official note from their school until May 20, indicates the order of the Education Minister to determine the schedule for the examination. |
The rooms where the exams are conducted are under CCTV. Mobile phones are transmitted to the entrance to the room. Quaestors are monitored to follow the rules. Most of them are teachers, but do not teach in the discipline that students are tested. They indicate the place of each adult, which is marked by a label by his name.
Only one matriculation has changed his second matriculation of mathematics to study economics
It is allowed to use a pen that writes in black. The student should also wear a pencil, rubber, drawing tools for math, physics and chemistry exams.
The matriculation will receive an exam set – a sheet with instructions for work and an identification form attached to it, answers, envelopes for individual parts, envelope for the identification form, as well as a large envelope for the individual exam work, white sheets for the draft.
| The Quaestors will also distribute reference materials – mathematical formulas, formulas and constants for the Matriculation in Physics and Astronomy, a periodic table of chemical elements, etc. that can be used during the exam. |
The matriculation in Bulgarian
The Bulgarian language matriculation is divided into three parts. The exam checks the knowledge and skills of twelve grammar grammar, spelling, vocabulary, ability to create text, retrieve information. The maximum number of exam points is 100. The works included in the exam are 27. The matriculation includes 41 tasks, of which:
- 22 tasks with an optional answer;
- 16 tasks with a short free answer;
- 2 tasks with extended free response (creating a text of 4 – 5 sentences);
- 1 task to create an argumentative text (interpretative essay or essay).
For the first part of the exam, the students have 60 minutes. The questions are 21, including language and literary tasks. The questions are selected or a brief free answer. They are recorded in the special answer form.
The second part of the exam contains 19 questions, including those with an elective, short and expanded free answer. Students have 60 minutes available.
| During the third part of the exam, adults must write an argumentative text up to 4 pages. The genres are an essay on a life problem or an interpretative work on a study of a literary work. The maximum points are 30 and the adults have 120 minutes available. |
Literary, linguistic competences, skills to build an argumentative text are evaluated.
See the criteria by which the texts will be evaluated and the points they give:
The second matriculation
The second compulsory matriculation is on May 23 at 8.30 am. The matriculation is a profiling subject or the theory of the profession for young people from vocational high schools. The second matriculation can be in a foreign language (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian), Mathematics, Information Technology, Informatics, Entrepreneurship, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, History, Geography, Philosophy, Music or Fine Arts.
Matriculation in mathematics becomes an entrance to economic specialties, universities are afraid of declining in admission
In recent years the matriculation on English is the most preferred. Last year, nearly 13,000 adults appeared on it. Depending on the studied level of the language at school, the matriculation is applied at the level B1, B1.1 or B2. The exam checks the skills of adults to understand, reading, reading and creating text. For the first part, the matriculation has 60 minutes and for the second part – 180.
Matriculation in Biology and Health Education He is also among the often chosen by adults. The first part of the exam contains questions with elective answers for which matriculations have 90 minutes. The second part contains tasks with a short and expanded free response. For them, students have 150 minutes.
| As of this year, the Ministry of Education has linked 15% of accepts in economic specialties With the application of a matriculation on Mathematics. The exam includes 18 tasks – 15 with optional and 3 with extended free response. For the first part, the adults have 90 minutes and for the second part – 150 minutes. |
The compulsory examination for acquisition of professional qualification for students from vocational high schools is conducted in two parts – part of the theory of the profession and part of the practice of the profession.
By June 11, students will learn their grades
The maximum number of points of all state matriculation exams is 100. The matriculation is taken at 30 points. Here is the rock at which the points turn into evaluations:
Matriculation optional
Adults can take up to two additional exams optional to validate competences. Extra matriculation assessments have the same weight with those of the two compulsory exams and with their grades can apply for university. The matriculation is optional on the profiled or general education.
