Eighth grade students are four days away from the first big exam in their lives: the 2024 National Assessment, on whose grade admission to high school depends. Here are the most important things that candidates, as well as their parents, need to know.
The National Assessment Exam begins on Tuesday, June 25. Photo source: archive
The 2024 National Assessment Exam begins on June 25, with the Romanian Language and Literature test. On June 27, the math test takes place, and on June 28, the students will take the Mother Tongue test.
National Assessment 2024. Exam calendar
- June 25, 2024 Romanian language and literature — written test;
- June 27, 2024 Mathematics — written test;
- 28 June 2024 Mother tongue and literature — written test;
- July 3, 2024 (until 2 p.m.) Display of results before appeals;
- July 3, 2024 (4:00 p.m.—7:00 p.m.) Submission of appeals;
- July 4, 2024 (8:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m.) Submission of appeals;
- July 4—July 9, 2024 Resolution of appeals;
- July 9, 2024 Display of final results after resolution of appeals;
National Assessment 2024. What time do the exams start
Written tests for Romanian Language, Mathematics and Mother Tongue start at 9:00 a.m., and students have two hours to solve the subjects. The writing time is calculated after filling in the identification box. Candidates are allowed to enter the halls from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
The candidates for whom this request has been approved by the County Commission for the Organization of National Evaluation, based on the provisions of the Special Procedure for ensuring equal opportunities for students with visual impairments, visual impairments, benefit from the extension of working time, by a maximum of two hours hearing and neurodevelopmental disorders.
The candidates will be directed by the assistants, directly to the designated place in the examination room, where they will be seated one by one on the bench, in alphabetical order.
Between 8:30 and 9:00, the students will be registered and will be explained how to conduct the test.
Starting at 9:00, children will receive the topic booklet and stamped draft paper. They will fill in the identification box (in a maximum of 15 minutes), and the assistants will check the entered data and keep the box secret.
Materials prohibited in the exam room
It is forbidden to enter the room with any type of supporting materials: textbooks, dictionaries, notes, notes, books, drafts, summaries, collections, etc., which can be used to solve the subjects, as well as with mobile phones and any electronic computing tool , information storage or communication. Candidates are prohibited from bringing satchels, rucksacks, satchels, purses and the like into the examination hall, candidates having the obligation to leave the said items in the personal belongings storage room established by the committee in the educational unit/examination center for this purpose. Students who refuse to store objects in the room established by the committee for this purpose, are not admitted to the exam. Failure to comply with the provisions regarding the introduction of prohibited materials into the examination room results in the removal of the student from the room, regardless of whether the prohibited materials were used or not, and the marking of the removed student’s work with 1 (one).
How to correct a wrong answer
In the written tests of the 2024 National Assessment exam, students receive the topics in booklet form. They may also ask for additional pages, if applicable.
Romanian Language and Literature
In the test of Romanian and/or native language and literature, a wrong answer can be corrected by cutting the letter written in the box with a horizontal line and writing to the right of the box the letter associated with the answer considered correct. Also, an answer that consists of marking an option with an X can be corrected by crossing the X mark with a horizontal line and marking the correct answer with an X.
EXAMPLE:
In the test of Romanian and/or native language and literature, underlining on the text with a blue pencil or pen/pen is allowed. In the case of items related to the syntax of the phrase, it is allowed to delimit the sentences in the phrase, without considering it a special sign.
Math
In the Mathematics test, an answer from Subject I or Subject II can be corrected by cutting with a horizontal line and circling another answer considered correct. In the situation where the student returns to the initially selected/circled answer and considers another option to be correct, this will be written in the column/box dedicated to the score assigned to the item, located next to the area with the four answer options.
EXAMPLE:
Markings on the figures and completion of the figures with blue pencil or pen/pen are allowed for the figures in the Mathematics test. It is also allowed to make some geometric figures (with a blue pencil or pen/pen) in the space provided for solving the problems.
National Assessment 2024. Appeals
Appeals can be submitted between July 3, 2024 (4:00 p.m.—7:00 p.m.) and July 4, 2024 (8:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m.), and will be resolved between July 4 and July 9, 2024.
During the appeals resolution stage, after the end of the evaluation of the works, the marks awarded after the re-evaluation are compared with those awarded in the initial evaluation stage. In the situation where there is a difference in grading of more than 1 point, plus or minus, between the grade from the initial assessment and the one from the appeals, the paper is re-evaluated by two other evaluators. Re-evaluation is done strictly following the grading scale and grading and all evaluation procedures. The grade awarded by the second appeals committee is the final grade obtained by the candidate. The grade obtained in the appeals resolution stage is the final grade, regardless of the score obtained, plus or minus, compared to the grade awarded in the initial evaluation stage of the paper. This mark can no longer be modified and represents the mark obtained by the candidate in the respective test.
Display the final results
The display of the final results of the 2024 National Assessment exam, after the resolution of the appeals, will take place on July 9, 2024. Their communication is anonymized, using the individual codes that replace the candidates’ first and last names and which were distributed to the candidates, based on of the receipt signature, at the first proof held by them. The commissions from the educational units – exam centers print the list of final results after the appeals of the anonymized candidates and display it, according to the calendar, with the signature of the president and the secretary of the commission from the exam center, on the notice board of the educational unit and on its website. The results of the national evaluation exam of the anonymized candidates are also displayed on the website of the Ministry of Education and the school inspectorates, for a period of 2 years.
