Over 6,000 ninth graders will have additional free math classes during the period of preparation for the secondary school graduation exams. The courses will last for 30-40 hours and will involve small groups of 3-4 children. The activity will be implemented by the Ministry of Education and Research with the support of the World Bank, within the Improving Quality of Education Project, IPN reports.

The decision was announced by the National Agency for Curriculum and Evaluation at a meeting with heads of district and municipal education divisions. The participants discussed the organization and conduct of the national graduation exams, the 2025 session.

The Agency’s director Lilia Ivanov announced that in November-December the Agency will organize training courses for teachers who this year teach in the ninth grade the exam subjects: the Romanian language and literature, the Russian language and literature, the Romanian language and literature for non-native speakers, mathematics, the Romanian and universal history.

In 2025, the national secondary school graduation exams will be held in exam centers that will be constituted taking into account the optimal travel distance for district institutions, but also the conditions available at the host institution to ensure the proper conduct of the exams.

Lilia Ivanov also said that this school year as well, the Ministry of Education and the National Agency for Curriculum and Evaluation will organize, at the request of institutions, the national primary education digital-format test in mathematics. In this connection, the education divisions will propose the list of requesting institutions and the number of students who want to take the computer-based test.

During the meeting, there was presented the draft methodology for organizing and conducting thematic tests, which is to be debated with the participation of the educational community.