NMT has turned from a tool for access to education into a barrier for applicants – Dvornikova
27 August 12:02
OPINION
The National Multisubject Test (NMT), introduced in 2022, was supposed to provide Ukrainian applicants with access to higher education during the war. However, over the years, it has turned into a test that more and more applicants are failing. Violetta Dvornikova, a public figure, mother of a teenager, Head of the European Women’s Association of Ukraine and Advisor to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, writes about this in her blog.
She recalled that in 2022, at the beginning of the full-scale war, the conditions for taking the NMT were quite flexible. An applicant could get rating points starting with one correct task in each block (Ukrainian, math, history).
“In 2022, 99% of participants passed the NMT! It was an extremely difficult period for the country. This is how the Ministry of Education and Science demonstrated: “Every graduate is important,” and despite the outbreak of war, they have the right to education at home guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine,”
– dvornikova said.
However, the approach has changed since 2023. A threshold score of 10% correct answers was set for each subject, and in 2024 it was raised to 15%. As a result, far fewer applicants got a chance to study, Dvornikova notes.
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“According to the results of NMT-2025, we saw a sharp increase in the number of those who did not pass the threshold.
Overall, 14.1% of participants failed the test. Math was failed by 11.4% of applicants (14,686 people), which is even more than in 2023 (when the NMT success rate was extremely low – ed.). About 10% of participants failed physics, and 5.5% failed chemistry,”
– she emphasized.
Dvornikova believes that it is not logical to shift the responsibility for the NMT results to young people. In her opinion, it is the test, its authors and organizers that have become a barrier for thousands of applicants, adding challenges to the stressful life of schoolchildren in the midst of war. As a result, some young people are forced to study abroad not of their own free will, but because of the admission rules that are not adapted to the war and the unwillingness of educational officials to admit their mistakes, Dvornikova emphasized.
As [Komersant] wrote, 317,000 participants registered for this year’s NMT, of whom only 2,414 across Ukraine received 200 points in at least one subject.
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