A national external assessment in Bulgarian Language and Literature (BL) and Mathematics is coming up for tenth graders in 1,022 schools across the country. The BEL exam will take place today, June 13, and the Mathematics exam on June 16. Both tests will start at 8:00 a.m., the press center of the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) announced.
The exams are 90 minutes long, with 30 minutes more provided for students with special educational needs (SEN).
The Bulgarian Language and Literature test contains a total of 21 tasks: 13 with multiple-choice answers, five with a short free answer, a text editing task, a thesis or antithesis formulation task, and a text creation task (resume, application, or CV). The curriculum covers the material from the eighth, ninth and tenth grades, and includes topics related to functional styles, language norms, text editing, as well as the studied literary works from Bulgarian literature.
The mathematics exam contains a total of 17 tasks: 15 multiple-choice tasks (with four possible answers, of which only one is correct) and two tasks with an extended free answer, for which the student presents the necessary justifications in writing. The curriculum covers the material from the eighth, ninth and tenth grades, including topics in algebra, functions, plane and spatial geometry, trigonometry, probability and combinatorics, statistics and data analysis, logic and mathematical modeling. During the exam, students can use the provided formula sheets.
Over 55,000 students are expected to appear for the national external assessment. They take the exams in the schools they attend. The maximum number of points is 100 for each of the exams, and the results will be announced by July 1, 2025.