Not only the 2023 final exams, but also professional exams await graduates of technical and industry schools. Students of post-secondary schools also have an exam confirming vocational qualifications. While a failed matura exam gives a certificate of completion of secondary school, failure to take a vocational exam means the need to repeat the last year. What does the 2023 professional exam look like? What permissions does it give, when can it be accessed and possibly corrected?
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The exam confirming professional qualifications is called the professional exam for short. Such an exam assesses the level of mastery of the knowledge, as well as the skills needed to perform a specific profession. What scope of knowledge and what practical skills should be presented by a graduate applying for a professional title is defined by the so-called requirements standards. And these standards are the basis for conducting the exam confirming professional qualifications.
Each exam confirming professional qualifications consists of two parts – written and practical. The written exam lasts 60 minutes and consists in solving the test. The test consists of 40 tasks and the examinee chooses one correct answer out of 4. The practical exam is carried out on an exam stand – properly prepared to carry out tasks related to a given profession. The practical exam lasts from 120 to 240 minutes.
Vocational exams in force in 2023 are carried out in three formulas: 2012, 2017 and 2019. What do the formulas mean and what are the differences? Individual exam formulas are addressed to school graduates who started their education and completed it in specific years (the formulas take into account changes in the core curricula, as well as changes resulting from the liquidation of lower secondary schools and the introduction of 8-grade primary schools).
“The vocational exam is conducted for students and graduates of basic vocational schools, technical and post-secondary schools who started their education not earlier than September 1, 2012, but not later than August 31, 2017, or take the exam as an extramural exam” – informs the Central Examination Commission.
