The eighth-grade exam began with a Polish language test

On Tuesday (May 13), eighth-graders took their first Polish language exam. They will take the next two exams - in mathematics and a foreign language - on Wednesday and Thursday. A good exam result can be a ticket to a good secondary school.

At exactly 9:00 a.m., eighth-grade students sat down in their classrooms to open their Polish language exam papers.

- The exam includes closed and open tasks, so in the case of Polish it will be some kind of essay, a longer form of statement - explains Wioletta Wolska, deputy director of Primary School No. 11 named after UNICEF in Szczecin.

Closed tasks include, among others, multiple choice tasks, true-false tasks and matching tasks. In open tasks, the student formulates the answer independently. These include tasks with a gap, requiring the completion of a sentence or a short text with one or more words, short answer tasks, requiring the creation of a short text, including tasks checking the ability to create functional forms - announcements and invitations and an extended answer task, requiring the writing of an essay.

In the first part of the Polish language exam paper, the tasks are organized around two texts: a literary text (poetry, epic or drama) and a non-literary text (scientific, popular science or journalistic). The student will be able to score 25 points, including about 50% for open-ended tasks, and in the second part of the paper, the student will be able to score 20 points. Here, there will be proposals for two essay topics, from which the student must choose one and write a text no shorter than 200 words. His task will be to choose a topic of a creative nature (creative story) and a topic of an argumentative nature (essay, speech). Each topic will require reference to compulsory school reading and/or to a work or works independently selected by the student.

Students have 150 minutes to write the Polish language exam, and students with special needs have 220 minutes to write it.

In the Szczecin "eleven" 84 people took the exam.

The exam result does not determine whether a student will finish school or not, but it is important in the recruitment process for post-primary schools.

- A student is required to take the exam. Regardless of whether they write it with fifty or one hundred percent, the important thing is that they finish school - says Wioletta Wójcik, deputy director of Primary School No. 11. - The better the exam result, the greater the chances of getting into a better school.

In Primary School No. 11, students took exams in different rooms (not in one, as in the case of final exams). They were called out by their names by teachers supervising the exam process.

On Wednesday, eighth graders write mathematics (the exam will last 125 minutes), on Thursday they will take an exam in one of the following modern foreign languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Russian or Italian. A student can only choose the language they are learning at school as part of their compulsory school classes. This exam will last 110 minutes.

Eighth-graders taking the exam must master the material from the last four years, i.e. from the fourth grade. They will learn the results on July 4 and will be able to check them themselves on the online platform.

In Western Pomerania, 13,772 students from 488 schools took the eighth-grade exam. ©℗

Agata Jankowski