The over 12,000 twelfth graders who took the Baccalaureate exams in the municipality of Chisinau have filed more than 8,000 challenges, disputing their grades, IPN reports.

Head of the Chisinau General Division of Education, Youth and Sport Tatiana Nagnibeda-Tverdohleb Monday said that about 2,000 challenges concerned the grades in the Romanian language exam, while the rest the grades in the geography, English and math exams.

The reassessment of the test papers based on the filed challenges starts on June 30. The additional session for the ninth graders who could not take the exams for objective reasons begins on July 16.