Quarter of high school students fail National Testing in Kazakhstan

More than twenty thousand graduates have failed the Unified National Testing in 2014, Tengrinews correspondent reports citing the National Testing Center.

The testing took place between June 2 and 8. It was attended by 87,593 graduates. Of them, 61,678 took it in the Kazakh language, and 25,915 took it in the Russian language. Almost a quarter - 20,236 graduates - was unable to overcome the threshold level and pass the test.

The testing consists of five subjects with 25 questions in each. The subjects are: Mathematics, Kazakh Language, Russian Language, History of Kazakhstan and one of the following subjects: World History, Foreign Language, Biology, Geography, Chemistry, Physics or Literature. The fifth subject should match the graduate's planned major in college. For example, a graduate has to take Biology as the fifth subject in order to be accepted to a program in Medicine.

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