In addition to the national assessment, 8th grade students who wish to enter a competitive lyceum will take another entrance exam organized by the lyceum, consisting of a maximum of two profile tests. For example, a child who chooses a mathematics and informatics profile in high school, where there are 29 candidates for 28 places, can take an exam in informatics, but also in mathematics with more difficult tasks than the external examination. The provision is contained in the new laws on education, official sources told HotNews.ro.

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The draft Law on Pre-University Education and Law on University Education, revised during the mandate of Minister Lygia Deka, will enter the parliamentary debate after February 15 according to the calendar agreed by the leaders of the coalition.

The possibility of organizing one’s own entrance exam was first announced by former minister Sorin Kimpeanu, who resigned after being accused of plagiarism.

Cîmpeanu’s version was aimed only at national colleges and was heavily criticized in the public space, one of the arguments against it being that it would further encourage the meditation industry, starting from elementary school.

The new draft of the Law on pre-university education, revised by Ligia Deka, provides that any competitive lyceum will be able to organize its own admission, with a maximum of two subjects per profile. An excess of the number of candidates over the number of places is considered a competition. For example, 29 candidates for 28 seats.

That is, an 8th grade student who wants to follow a natural science profile could also take the final exam in chemistry and biology, a child who wants to go to the mathematics-informatics profile could also take the final exam in informatics, but also in mathematics, with points. of greater difficulty compared to the national assessment, in time for social sciences, the exam can also be taken in history. Thus, the meditation industry is encouraged even more, of all subjects.

How would senior schools organize their reception

The high school must notify the school in advance of the intention to organize its own exam and specialized subjects, a maximum of two of which the children will take the exam.

The exam will be organized after the national assessment, it will be related to the chosen profile, and the study unit will determine its own admission criteria. He will also decide whether and in what proportion the student’s average score in the national assessment will be taken into account, quoted official sources told HotNews.ro.

After the national assessment, which all 8th grade students take, and after their own exam set by the high schools, a computerized task will be created. Pupils who did not have time to get to a place after entering a lyceum or did not register for an exam at any lyceum are automatically placed in the computerized distribution based on the results of the external examination.

Self-test items administered by high schools will be created for each subject by the National Assessment Center and will be the same for all high schools, whether it is a college or a small-town high school in the country.

The lyceum that organized the entrance exam and in which the places will not be filled, loses the right to organize its own exam in the following year.

Provisions of the draft law:

• “High school units will work according to the principle of the direction in which they study
• Entry to the high school cycle for the vocational stream includes two practical entrance exams at high school level before a national assessment
• Admission to the high school cycle for theoretical/technological streams – two entrance tests organized at the high school level, with standardized national subjects – for 90% of places
• A maximum of 10% of seats will be filled by computerized allocation for voters of CES/Roma ethnicity.”

If new education laws are passed this year, 2028 could be the first year new high school admissions rules apply. (PHOTO: Dreamstime.com)