Small graduation exam starts with Serbian language test; Results expected by June 25

Assistant Minister of Education for preschool and elementary education, Milan Pai, said today that everything is ready for the junior high school graduation, as well as that the final activities are coming to an end.
"The school calendar stipulates that Serbian language test, i.e. the mother tongue, will be on Wednesday, June 21 from 9 to 11 a.m., then on Thursday, June 22, mathematics and on June 23, the students will take the chosen test, this is a novelty compared to previous years, there is no more combined test. This year, we have a selected test from one of the offered subjects that the students chose until the end of December," said Pai for Tanjug.
Most students chose biology - 38 percent, geography - 29 percent, history - 16 percent, chemistry - nine percent and physics - eight percent.
He said that the examination lasts 120 minutes and the examination procedure itself stipulates that students cannot leave the room for the first 45 minutes and the last 15 minutes. The assistant minister said that students and parents should not worry and that there are enough places in secondary schools.
"We have 66,970 students and participants of functional primary education for adults in the system, and in secondary schools we have about 75,800 vacant places. So there are enough places for everyone," he said.
Pai pointed out that he expects the eighth graders to prepare well and thanked the teachers who had preparatory classes with them in the previous period so that they could do their final exam as well as possible.
"The next step in the final exam is the selection, which means that students can get 40 points on these three tests, Serbian language or mother tongue - 14 points, mathematics also 14 points, and the selected test 12...