Minister approved the national exams program

The Minister of Education and Science, Dmitri Shashkini, signed decrees that endorsed the programs of high school, national unified and teacher certification exams. The exams are in a full compliance with the national curriculum; the duration of the teachers' certification examinations will be increased.

The exams programs feature all exam questions and interconnections between these questions and respective topics in the national curriculum, the programs also comprise a list of all subject matter skills.

The exams programs contain three charts, the first lists the exams questions, the second definitions of them and third, relating these topics to the national curriculum.

Experts of the National Center for Teacher Professional Development, National Examinations Center and National Curriculum Center have been working on development of the exams programs for several months. They have elaborated these programs based on the national curriculum. Exam programs will be posted on the web site of the Ministry.