Crossing the school's threshold

One of the specific features of education in Kazakhstan became a system of final and entrance exams There are still entrants, who from year to year conquer the Mont Blanc of the higher education. From recently in order to be enrolled university one has successfully pass the tests.

The testing method used widely in m countries for evaluating the quality of knowledge Kazakhstan is the second among the CIS countries after Uzbekistan that started to use the tests to select the future students. The major advantage of this method is that it allows avoiding the influence of subjective factor on the knowledge estimation. Another advantage of the testing technology is that an entrance exam is being passed not because of the prestige of institute as it was before, but for the selected specialty.

This year, we have conducted an interesting experiment at 4 schools in Aktyubinsk, Petropavlovsk, Paviodar and Taraz using the testing method. The experiment combined the final and entrance exams. The entrants demonstrated their knowledge in the Kazakh and Russian languages, history of Kazakhstan, mathematics and selected discipline. Most students showed good knowledge. Time will prove whether this approach is efficient and viable.

The graduates now have opportunity to continue education at the expense of the state. For example, those who received high grades for testing are awarded with the state grant or credit. Those who were honoured with a governmental golden medal “Altyn Beligi” are enrolled to the universities without exams.

The exciting times of final exams left behind. And a new no less excited generation is ready to enter a school life: new teachers, new books, new disciplines, new friends, new rules and new everything...

The time, when a father took his son to the school that has “made him a good man” some time ago has passed. It is hard to imagine that 10-12 years ago children used to learn to strip Kalashnikov gun at school. The agricultural works after the school year were considered a perfect method of upbringing and were taken for granted. Common uniform and pioneer ties, cards with questions at the entrance exams and cribs... many things are left in our past for good.

Today, the schools in Kazakhstan have another face. Of course many of them are far fromperfection. The teachers are still underpaid and have unfavourable social status. Few schools constructed the new buildings. There are no computers in many rural schools. Nevertheless the changes in the schools in Kazakhstan are obvious. Which makes us hope that the knowledge received in schools will open new horizons and opportunities everywhere, wherever our children decide to live, study or work.

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