OV shows how the Matura Test will be organized

The Ministry of Education and Science has made all preparations to keep the Matura Test by August 29th, including measures for protection from COVID-19. No more than 12 students will be allowed in each class, and all should be equipped with masks.

Unlike the previous years when the test has been held in two parts, this year due to the seniors' pandemic, they will take the test in just one day. Over 26 thousand seniors will have 100 questions from four subjects, where the passage of this test will be 40 points out of 100 questions.

MAS Photo Rating Chief Fatmir Elez, in an interview for Kosovo Press, says they have made all preparations for maintaining this test.

Because COVIDD-19 this year is held only one day, the first part of the test is also reduced by 50 questions, each subject in 25 questions is three general subjects of 25 questions, Albanian, English, and mathematics, and the fourth subject chooses the student himself from 12 available subjects. In total, the test has 100 questions, the test starts at 10:00 for students, and from the moment it starts completing the test, it takes 150 minutes... the passability criteria are 40 percent or 40 points from the 100 possible points of”, he says.

Learning units from March 12th, when the learning process is interrupted, Elez said they were not included in the Matura Test.

We've prepared the test, the questions won't be the part where students stopped learning, so from March 12 and over, those teaching units that were there won't be any questions from those teaching units. It's a little problematic because it's a pause, we understand that a break from the end of the school year with the student holding the test, but I hope the students have used this pause to prepare for Test”, he stressed.

Elez points out how the minister has taken all measures to protect students from COVID-19 during the test day. The test will be held in 184 test centres, where as a measure of protection from the virus, he says they have seen that there are no more than 12 students in one class.

“We've been trying to get every student to wear masks, so no acts that are allowed to enter the test without a mask. In addition, we have agreed that in classrooms there are not more than 12 students and that other acts we've had in our testing centres with the proposal of municipal directors we have agreed that three persons will be engaged in the school yard in order to instruct students about how to behave, not to allow the collection of students in court”, he says.

The organisation of the pandemia Matura test, Elesi, says it is a challenge, but says it has decided to be held because students do not face future problems because of not holding it.

It's a challenge, but with the recommendations of the Institute we've decided to keep the test because it doesn't keep the test will cause more damage to students. As a generation, there will be a generation that don't have a Matura test and it can cause problems for other years... as far as COVIID-19 is concerned, students will be equipped with masks, in each class there will be disinfectant, and in the corridors there will be disinfectant, the distance I believe will be kept inside the classroom, the distance alone is ahead of one and a half meters of the banks where students will be sitting, says Elez.

Students at testing centres will not be allowed to come in by telephone, and possession during the test will influence students to be excluded from testing. Elez points out that the Ministry of Education and Science has committed 2,000 and 568 managers for the performance of testing.

The Matura test will undergo 26 thousand and 817 seniors at the country level. This test was scheduled to be held on July 4th, but has been postponed due to increasing the number of cases infected with COVID-19.