The eighth-grade exam 2022 will start on Monday. Over 7,000 students from Ukraine have signed up for the exams. The Central Examination Commission (CKE) has introduced some simplifications for them during exams, incl. translation of a worksheet with math tasks.

Ukrainian students taking the eighth-grade exam, just like Polish students of eighth-grade primary school, will write three exams on three consecutive days: Polish language, mathematics and a modern foreign language. Ukrainian students who came to Poland from February 24 to April 11 can also take the exam. Marcin Smolik, director of CKE, informed that 7146 students from Ukraine submitted declarations and formally applied for the tests. Most of them are in Poznań, Warsaw and Wrocław.

Students from Ukraine taking the eighth-grade exam will have more time to write the Polish language exam (from 120 minutes to 210 minutes). In the case of the math exam and the modern foreign language, the time remains the same and amounts to 100 and 90 minutes, respectively.

The Polish language sheet will be the same as for a student whose limited knowledge of the Polish language makes it difficult to understand the read text. Instructions will be translated into Ukrainian, but the texts and tasks will be in Polish, and the student will have to write the answers in Polish. CKE introduces the possibility of using the Ukrainian-Polish dictionary.

The math worksheet will have instructions, task commands and task content translated into Ukrainian, and solutions will also be written in this language. The modern foreign language sheet will be a standard sheet with adaptations, i.e. instructions and commands will be translated into Ukrainian. The tasks will be in a foreign language or in Ukrainian, the answers can be in Ukrainian or in a foreign language as instructed.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński