“In our ministry, we have taken all the necessary measures to ensure the conditions of calm and security that are necessary for you to perform at your best in the exams that begin tomorrow. We are always on your side, as well as on the side of your parents, your teachers and professors and everyone who supported you in the difficult struggle of your preparation.

This assurance ends the message of the Acting Minister of Education. Christou Kitta candidates National exams starting today. Of course, Mr. Kitta’s report takes on a special flavor because it was made after his collapse. Thematic bank due to a cyber attack on internal high school exams. However, yesterday the exams passed without problems, and the tone in the political confrontation on this issue also decreased.

Panhellenic examinations start today with graduates Vocational High Schoolsand tomorrow a large category of candidates begins, General High Schools. Both categories start with her lesson General Education in Modern Greek. It is expected that a total of 95,000 high school candidates will apply for a place in universities. A total of 68,574 positions are assigned by the Ministry of Education in universities, excluding positions in military, police and tourism schools, which are determined by the ministries in charge of the schools. In total this year there will be 452 faculties in the computerized report, two more than last year (both at the University of Patras).

As for the changes that will come into effect for the first time this year, it is difficult to succeed in ancient greek for candidates of the faculties of humanities and social sciences, and the new conditions will also affect the assessment of individual subjects Modern Greek Language and Literature General Education, which will affect the scores of all university candidates. In particular, subjects in antiquities are asked questions from a text taught at school and from an unstudied text. Prior to the Panhellenic Examinations 2022, if a candidate correctly answered questions on a taught text, they scored 12 out of 20 (60 out of 100) and 8 out of 20 (40 out of 100) on an unlearned text. By a new decision of the Ministry of Education, one of the two questions in the taught text, for which 2 points out of 20 were given as “excellent”, will be excluded from this year’s general Greek exams, these two points will be “given away” unlearned translation, which is excellent out of 8 out of 20 units will be 10 units out of 20. At the same time, in her lesson Modern Greek Language and Literature General Education given five topics. The change that will apply from this year is that the first topic (the résumé that applicants are asked to do) will have a score of 20 out of 100, up from 15 points prior to last year. Five points are subtracted from the second subject (it has three sub-questions about non-literary texts given to students in the exam), for which excellent points are reduced from 40/100 to 35/100 points. And this change – less severe than the Ancients’ – is estimated to make it 20 more difficult.

Attack investigation

An investigation by EYP found that a total of 100,000 email addresses were involved in the Topic Bank attacks, of which 7,500 were verified by late evening. Thirty of them have been linked to a pro-Russian hacker group codenamed Killnet, as determined by the EPA and partner agencies. Officials note that the sample is quite small, so it is too early to draw any definitive conclusions about what happened.