Registration for the centralized testing begins today

May 4, Minsk / Yulia Vanina - BELTA /. Registration of applicants for participation in centralized testing (CT) begins today. Registration will be carried out from May 4 to June 1 inclusive. This was announced to a BELTA correspondent by Nikolai Feskov, Director of the Republican Institute for Knowledge Control of the Ministry of Education. Registration points will be open from 9:00 to 19:00 on weekdays and until 18:00 on Saturdays. When registering, the applicant will need to fill out an application, provide a document confirming payment for the admission and processing of documents for participation in centralized testing (Br10 thousand for one academic subject), and present a passport, or a residence permit in Belarus, or a refugee certificate, or a certificate issued in case of loss (theft) of an identity document. In Belarus, this year, an automated system for CT registration has been introduced in all 73 registration points. The first stage of implementing the information system "Republican Database of Centralized Testing Participants" covered testing points in Minsk and regional centers in 2010. Previously, such registration was experimentally conducted during the 2009 admission campaign at Yanka Kupala Grodno State University and Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. The implementation of the automated information system will help streamline the organization of registration and conduct it on a one-stop-shop principle, Nikolai Feskov is confident. The use of the new system will fully automate the work of registration points, save labor and a significant amount of financial resources, and ensure applicant registration within a single window. In general, the system reduces the time for registering one applicant by automating all stages of document processing and brings the registration process to a new level of reliability and efficiency. A reserve day for those who could not attend the centralized testing on schedule for objective reasons is July 4. The registration period for applicants to participate in CT for academic subjects on the reserve day is from June 27 to June 30. The first test (in Belarusian language) will be held on June 14. On June 15, applicants will take Russian language, on June 17 - History of Belarus, on June 19 - Mathematics, on June 21 - Social Studies, on June 22 - Chemistry, on June 23 - World History of the Latest Period, on June 25 - Physics, on June 26 - Biology, on June 28 - Foreign Languages, on June 29 - Geography. All tests will begin at 11:00. Certificates, as in the past year, will be issued to everyone who scores 1 point or more. The issuance of certificates to all applicants increases their chances of admission to universities and secondary vocational schools, both state-funded and private. Not all universities in Belarus have been designated as CT registration points, but only a few dozen where space permits. Therefore, when filling out documents, attention should be paid specifically to the educational institution where the testing itself will take place according to the pass issued to the applicant. When applying to a secondary vocational school, an applicant can register for two test subjects; for a university, no more than three academic subjects: Belarusian or Russian language (choice) and two subjects in accordance with the profile (specialization) of the chosen major. Only applicants with uncovered heads, i.e., without headwear, will be allowed to take the centralized testing this year. Specialists responsible for conducting CT have repeatedly noted cases where transmitting devices, cheat sheets, and other examination "ammunition" were hidden under caps, scarves, and shawls. Only devices that cannot receive, store, or transmit information can be used as calculators; mobile phones, tablets, and e-books are best left at home. For physics and chemistry tests, a simple calculator that performs four arithmetic operations, has one memory register, and calculates percentages and square roots as additional functions can be used. The duration of CT, the number of questions for each subject, and the answer processing technologies remain unchanged. As before, results will be provided within 10-12 days after the test. -0-