Over 32,000 graduates will take Baccalaureate exams this year

The high school graduates will take the first Baccalaureate exam on June 2 - the Romanian language test for other-language speaking graduates. The next exam – the Romanian language test for national schools and the Russian language test for other-language teaching schools – will be held on June 5. The exam in the studied foreign language will be taken on June 9, while the specialty exam – mathematics, geography, arts or sport – on June 12. The chosen exam will be taken on June 15. The last exam for those that studied Gagauz, Bulgarian and Ukrainian will be held on June 18. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, Valentina Miron, deputy head of the Assessment and Examination Agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, said that this year the graduate students will take the exams in the institutions where they studied, on condition that there are at least 25 graduates. The exams will be held in large rooms like gymnasiums or halls. During the exams, the candidates are not allowed to have on them message transmission and reception apparatus. According to Valentina Miron, they proposed installing jamming equipment but this is not possible as they can jam all the other pieces of apparatus outside the Baccalaureate centers. The utilization of school atlases at geography exams was legalized this year. The previous years, there was no such rule and this caused misunderstandings. Every atlas will be checked when the students enter the examination hall, Valentina Miron added. The students that will come to exams without the identity card will enter the examination hall using the copy of the card that will be extracted, if necessary, from the archive of the institution. However, when the exam is over, the student will have to bring the identity card to confirm their identity. The tests will be sent by email. Only the heads of the Baccalaureate centers will have access to them. They will have private passwords that will be changed at every exam. The heads of the Baccalaureate centers will access the tests in the morning of the exam day and will print the necessary number of tests. A barcode will be allotted to every student and will be put in three places. Thus, the work will not be initialed as the previous years. The person that wrote the test will be known only after the works are checked – when the score indicated on the test will be introduced in the computer. Another novelty is that the test can be filled out only with a blue pen. The previous years, the students were allowed to use violet pens. All the results will be made public after the last exam. The contestations can be filed within 48 hours of the moment when the results are posted. But the students will not be able to see their works even if they want to contest the result. They will have to recollect what they wrote and will be offered an uncompleted test that will also contain the points allotted for every answer. This way, the graduates will better recall what they wrote. The representative of the Education Ministry said that this way the students will not be able to correct the mistakes in the tests. Those interested can find the Baccalaureate exam regulations, the schedule of the exams and test models on the website aee.edu.md. About 32,000 high school, college and university graduates in Moldova, including Transnistria, will take Baccalaureate exams this year. A number of 394 Baccalaureate centers will be opened all over the country. 5,620 students will take the exams in the 72 Baccalaureate centers that will work in the municipality of Chisinau.