The Ministry of Education and Science has published the models of the national external assessments for the 2025-2026 academic year, including sample tasks.
As before, these exams are taken at the end of grades 4, 7 and 10, with the aim of diagnosing the individual achievements and progress of students and monitoring the educational process in order to improve the quality of education.
There is no change in this year's exam formats for fourth-graders compared to those of last year. The same also remains for those in Bulgarian language and literature for seventh and tenth graders.
The Ministry of Education and Science has already publicly presented sample tasks for the national external assessment after 7th and 10th grade in mathematics, and the published models also include additional ones to help students.
We remind you that in the tests from the national external assessments for grades VII and X there will be 6 tasks from natural sciences, which students will solve using mathematical knowledge. Together with them, the total number of tasks in the HBO exam will be 24 for grade VII and 18 for grade X. In order for them to feel calm and have enough time to understand the conditions of the tasks, the working time will be increased by 15 minutes for seventh graders (so the exam will have a total duration of 180 minutes), and for tenth graders – by 30 minutes (their total time will be 120 minutes).
The six tasks in natural sciences will include basic knowledge and competencies related to biology and health education, chemistry and environmental protection, physics and astronomy, geography and economics, as well as man and nature for seventh graders. Students will not be required to understand complex concepts, nor will they need to memorize the theory of the relevant subjects, but rather to solve practical tasks that will be necessary and useful to them in the future in life.