The Ministry of Education and Science has presented a draft procedure for admission to universities in 2023 on the basis of the improved national multi-subject test (NMT).
“Today, the single instrument of admission is an external independent assessment, but taking into account the security situation, we model the safest possible admission, take into account the opinion of parents and applicants, and submit to the Verkhovna Rada a jointly coordinated admission model under the improved national multi-subject admission test 2023,” said Minister of Education and Science Sergey Shkarlet at a briefing on the model admission campaign in 2023 on Friday.
In particular, the advanced national multidisciplinary test will consist of two compulsory subjects: Ukrainian language and mathematics, and one subject of your choice: history of Ukraine, a foreign language (English, French, German or Spanish), physics, chemistry or biology (you will have to choose when registering for the NFT).
The duration of testing will be 180 minutes, which will include three blocks of subjects, and the time can be distributed by blocks independently.
There will be 30 test tasks in Ukrainian language, history of Ukraine, chemistry and biology, 32 tasks in foreign languages, 22 tasks in mathematics and 20 tasks in physics.
The innovation of taking the NMT in 2023 will be the introduction of a minimum passing score, which will be equal to at least 10% for each subject, depending on the maximum number of points that will be offered for a particular test option.
According to the draft, applicants will be admitted to the competitive selection for places of state (regional) order and may be recommended or transferred to such places if they have a competitive score of at least 130 (for children of deceased defenders of Ukraine this condition does not apply).
Competitive score for admission on the basis of secondary general education and educational and professional degree of professional minor can not be less than 150 points for specialties “dentistry”, “medicine”, “pediatrics” area of knowledge “health”, can not be less than 140 points for specialties areas of knowledge “law”, “public administration and administration”, “international relations”, specialty “pharmacy, industrial pharmacy”.
According to the rules, applicants for art and sports specialties will have to pass the NMT and creative competition.
In addition, the ministry reports that instead of the results of NMT 2023 it will be possible to use the results of NMT 2022 or Independent External Evaluation (IEE) 2020/2021.
Applicants for admission to the master’s degree will be counted according to the results of the unified entrance examination (UCE) – test of general educational competence and foreign language test for all specialties, and the unified professional entrance test (UPT) (in the specialties “social and behavioral sciences”, “journalism”, “management and administration”, “law”, “public administration and administration”, “international relations”) or professional examination in the educational institution for entry into other specialties.
Besides, it will be possible to register for a contract on the basis of a complete general secondary education, an educational and professional degree of professional associate bachelor and an educational degree of bachelor for the specialties with special support (53 specialties and 11 specializations) without external exams (NFT, EBE, EPBE), but only on the basis of the entrance exams in the institution of higher education.
The minister noted that registration for NMT-2023 will begin in April.
Applicants will be able to submit up to 20 applications for all sources of funding and grounds of admission, of which no more than 5 applications for places of state or regional order.
“We have agreed on the position that all privileged categories, participants from the temporarily occupied territories, de-occupied territories will have the opportunity to enter the distance model of their choice. And for three months they will have to conclude a contract by coming to the institution of education to study, “- added Shkarlet.
The 2023 admission campaign will not use the average scores of previously received educational documents and the rural factor, and the industry factor will be used to support applicants on the basis of a complete general secondary education and educational and professional degree of professional associate degree with a priority choice of one of the specialties, which is given special support. The regional coefficient will be determined in the spring depending on the military and political situation in Ukraine.
As well as last year, a separate category for admission remain military education institutions and institutions with special conditions of training, admission to which will be carried out according to their own rules of such institutions.
According to the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Education, Science and Innovation Sergei Babak, a bill with the specified admission procedure for 2023 will be adopted at the next meeting of Parliament.
