ZAGREB, July 13, 2020 - The results of the graduation exams which secondary school leavers took recently are better than the results of those exams last year, the head of the National Centre for the External Evaluation of Education (NCVVO), said on Monday.
The 11th season of exit exams for secondary school leavers in Croatia lasted from 8 June to 2 July, with some 31,000 students from more than 360 schools sitting for the exams in the circumstances marked by the COVID-19 epidemic and consequences of the 22 March earthquake that hit Zagreb and its environs.
The NCVVO head, Ivana Katavic, who presented the results today, said that there were 105 tests completed with a 100% score in this generation.
Also, four exam takers solved two of their tests completely accurately.
Katavic said that more and more secondary school-leavers were showing interest in STEM areas from year to year.
Students are supposed to pass the school-leaving exams in the Croatian language, Mathematics and a foreign language in order to be awarded a graduation certificate. There are compulsory and elective subjects at the state graduation exam and they are equal for all students and are taken at the same time. The compulsory state graduation exams can be taken at two levels: the higher level (A) and the basic level (B).
The total number of students who failed to pass some of those compulsory tests fell by 60% this year in comparison to last year when more than 1,000 students failed.
