Sadri Şensoy, Deputy Minister of National Education, shared the details of the preparations for the central exam within the scope of the High School Transition System (LGS) to be held on June 4. Şensoy reminded that the central exam within the scope of LGS will be held on Sunday, June 4 and that they received the exam applications centrally as in previous years.
Noting that in 71 provinces outside the earthquake zone, students will take the central exam within the scope of LGS in their own schools, Şensoy said, “Exam entrance documents will be placed on the desks by the school administration on the day of the exam. We want our students to come to the exam with a valid ID card.” said.
Şensoy stated that every precaution has been taken by the Ministry of National Education, provincial and district national education directorates, governorships and district governorships to ensure that the LGS central exam can be held safely. Şensoy reminded that they published sample questions every month during the exam process, as they did in previous years, and said that they made the previously published sample questions into a booklet and distributed them first to the earthquake region and then to the whole of Turkey.
Noting that the number of auxiliary resources they provided to students this year reached 190 million, Şensoy emphasized that they provided great convenience to students with all these efforts. Regarding the content of the exam, Şensoy said, “We did not include the second semester subjects of the 8th grade in the exam in order to prevent our students in the earthquake zone from experiencing any unjust treatment. In other words, there will only be exams from the first semester subjects of the 8th grade.” he reminded.
Expressing that the central exam within the scope of LGS consists of two sessions, Şensoy gave the following information: In the first session, which will start at 09.30, students will be asked a total of 50 questions from Turkish, Turkish Republic history of revolution and Kemalism, religious culture and moral knowledge, and a 75-minute answering session. time will be given. Students will be given 11.30 minutes in the second session, which will start at 40 in the second session, where a total of 80 questions from mathematics and science will be asked. They will have some free time between the two sessions. Between the two sessions, students will be able to go out to the school gardens and meet their needs.
“There will be no grievances in the earthquake zone”
Sadri Şensoy stated that they have implemented applications that provide convenience to students in the provinces in the earthquake zone. Reminding that they gave the earthquake-affected students the ease of choosing to take the exam in the province and district they want, Şensoy said, “In this context, 8 thousand of our 256th grade students studying in the earthquake region applied with the request to take the exam in 67 provinces”.
Şensoy, who gave information about the preparations for the students in the earthquake area, continued as follows: We opened the exam place preference application process for our students in the earthquake area at the same time as the whole of Turkey, the applications were completed until May 26. However, if there are students who want to take the exam in other provinces due to a change of residence, transfer or other force majeure reasons, we have given them until 30 May. These students applied to the provincial and district commissions and determined their place to take the exam. Afterwards, if our children request a change of place due to transfer, province change or some problems, they will not experience any grievances by applying to the provincial district commissions. As the Ministry, we do not want children to have any problems in taking the exam, especially due to the earthquake this year. We have taken all necessary precautions regarding this. We informed our provincial and district managers about the issue. Therefore, our students will not have any problems at the point of entry to the exam.
“In the earthquake, the exam entrance places of the students were determined centrally”
Şensoy stated that they have made special studies for the earthquake region regarding the central exam within the scope of LGS, and said, “If there are students in the earthquake region who do not choose a province or district for the exam, the exam entrance places of these students have been determined centrally by the Ministry. We have taken every precaution to avoid any disruption in this matter.” said.
Şensoy stated that they implemented support and training courses intensively in the earthquake region during this process and continued his words as follows: We have created approximately 3 thousand 450 support and training course points. We reprinted the textbooks and supplementary books that we distributed to our students here at the beginning of the year, upon the instruction of the Minister of National Education Mahmut Özer, and sent them to these provinces. In addition, we sent our teachers, who are especially experienced in writing questions, who work in measurement and evaluation centers in 71 provinces to our students in our support and training courses here. At first, we gave these courses in tents and containers. Later on, we got this opportunity in the NATO Tent City of approximately 4 people, provided by the Ministry of National Defense. Again in Iskenderun, on the Rauf Bey Ship, we opened support and training courses that benefited approximately 2 students, and the participation here was quite high.”
Answer key in the afternoon, booklets the next day, results on June 26
Şensoy reminded that this year, as in previous years, students can get their exam booklets from the schools where they took the exam the next day.
Sadri Şensoy made the following evaluations regarding the exam: We will hold the LGS central exam this year in 15 thousand 532 schools and 81 thousand 570 halls. A total of 465 thousand 274 officers will take part in the two sessions. This year, 8 million 1 thousand 246 students are enrolled in the 429th grade, approximately 256 thousand of these students are in the earthquake zone. Our 67 thousand students from the earthquake region requested to take the exam in 71 provinces and we fulfilled these demands. We made the application of all the remaining students centrally. There is no obligation to take the exam. Only the student who wishes will take the exam. As the Ministry of National Education, we make two types of placements. First of all, we are placing students in schools that accept students by examination according to the results of the exam. We also place children in school based on the address we call local placement. We will announce the LGS central exam results on June 26. No documents will be sent to students. Students will receive their exam results electronically. After that, our placement process will start and we will publish the LGS selection and placement guide on the same day. Afterwards, the placement process will start. Therefore, when this whole process is over, we will have placed all our students who graduated from the 8th grade into a school in the 9th grade.”
Stating that the teachers will take part in the exam outside their own schools, Şensoy noted that since there are control and warning systems in the information processing system, there will be no problems in this regard.