The Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment (UCEQA) has spoken out against lowering the passing score for the National Multidisciplinary Test (NMT): 100 points is the minimum level of knowledge
6 July 09:18
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Lowering the minimum passing score on the National Multidisciplinary Test will not solve the problem of educational quality, since even the current threshold corresponds to the basic level of knowledge that students are expected to master.
This was stated by Tetyana Vakulenko, head of the Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment, in an interview for the YouTube channel
According to her, the established minimum score of 100 rating points actually indicates only that students have mastered the basic curriculum.
“100 points is not a high score. It is the minimum level of knowledge, which roughly corresponds to the fifth- and sixth-grade curriculum,” she explained.
Vakulenko noted that if an applicant cannot even meet this threshold, it raises questions not only about admission to a higher education institution but also about the level of mastery of the school curriculum in general.
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She also spoke out against the idea of lowering admission requirements in order to increase student enrollment.
“If a person cannot meet even the minimum threshold, it is unlikely that a university will be able to make up for the knowledge they did not acquire in school,” emphasized the head of the Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment.
According to Vakulenko, the minimum score is not a tool for selecting the best applicants, but merely confirms the presence of the basic competencies necessary to continue studies at a higher education institution.
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The Ministry’s decision was a response to proposals by Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and representatives of higher education institutions to lower the minimum admission score from 150 to 130.
The proponents of the changes explained their position by citing the difficult conditions under which the National Multisubject Test was administered during the war: air raid alerts, prolonged stays in shelters, technical glitches, and high levels of stress among high school graduates.
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