Four in five Polish school leavers successful in final exams
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
30.06.2017 15:07
Some 78.5 percent of Poland's 258,000 school leavers received a passing grade on Friday when the preliminary results of this year's final exams, known as the matura, were released.
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About 15 percent of students failed only one of their subjects and will be eligible to take a retest in August. Their grades will be announced in September.
The rest can try again next May.
Some 85 percent of high school students passed the exams, faring better than their counterparts at vocational schools, of whom 68 percent were successful.
Three exams were compulsory – Polish, mathematics and a foreign language – and students needed to correctly answer 30 percent of questions for a pass.
Students could opt to take tests in additional subjects, where there was no pass-fail threshold.
The results of this year's matura exams echo the results of the previous two years.
For the first time in 2017 students will be entitled to contest their results if they believe their grade was wrong with the district exam commission, with one chance to appeal that decision. (vb/pk)
Source: PAP