META came across a document sent by the Ministry of Education and Science and signed by the Minister Abdilakim Ademi to the rector of the University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius “, Velimir Stojkovski, on 5th of December, which explains the model of the national exam for students and the way it will be conducted.
The document reads that the exam will consist of five questions from each subject, with four possible answers, but the questions will have a different difficulty. In order to pass, students must provide correct answers to at least three questions from each subject.
“State exam for students will contain five questions from each subject, from each academic year, with four provided solutions of varying difficulty, of which one solution is the correct answer to the question.
The questions from each subject, which will be delivered at random to each student during the state exam through a special software system, will have a varying level of complexity. Two questions will be of most complex kind, while the remaining three will have lower levels of complexity.
The state exam will be considered as passed if the student has correctly answered at least three questions from each subject.”
Students who won’t pass the exam will be eligible to retake it three times for free, after which they will have to pay, but the document didn’t specify the amount.
“Students will take the state exam only once in a quarter of the academic year, and the first three attempts will be free of charge. If a student fails to pass the state exam three times, he will be charged for the next registration for the exam.”
The document states that the Board of accreditation and evaluation of higher education shall be composed of nine members, who would be appointed by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia through a public announcement.
