59,414 students are expected to appear today for the national external assessment in mathematics after the seventh grade, BTA reported.
The exam, which will start at 9:00 a.m., will take place in 1,665 schools, in which there are a total of 5,430 halls, the press center of the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) announced.
The exam test contains a total of 23 tasks. They were the same number last year. However, there is a change in two of the tasks in the first part of the test. In this module, all 20 tasks in the current year will have a selectable answer - unlike last year, when 18 were selectable and two - with a short free answer.
In the second part of the exam, the seventh graders will again solve three problems with free answers.
There is also a change in the duration of the exam. This year, the first part will last a total of 75 minutes, which is 15 minutes more than last year.
The time for the second part remains unchanged - 90 minutes in total.
The results of the exam will be announced by July 2.
On June 19, the seventh graders appeared for the national external assessment in Bulgarian language and literature. They wrote a total of 26 tasks in the exam.
In the second module of the external assessment, students had to do a detailed retelling on behalf of a neutral narrator of the story "The Choice" of Kristin Dimitrova, students who passed the exam from metropolitan schools reported to BTA. The text was created especially for the national external assessment of Bulgarian language and literature in the seventh grade. "Today, 60 thousand seventh-graders are writing a retelling of my story "The Choice". I sincerely hope that I have at least made their difficult school life a little easier." - this is what Kristin Dimitrova, author of the story "The Choice" wrote on her Facebook profile on June 19.
"The peasant woman was delighted, if she had wings, she would have picked him up and flown with him" - on this quote from the story "One Bulgarian woman" of Ivan Vazov, the seventh-graders reasoned on the 25th question of the exam for the national external assessment in Bulgarian language and literature. They were required to write in three or four sentences what the words of the fifth chapter of the work suggest, the MES explained at the time.