Children from border areas of the Belgorod region were allowed not to take exams

Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov during yesterday’s live broadcast in “In contact with“said that the format of exams for schoolchildren in grades 9 and 11 in the region will be the same as last year.

“The order of the Ministry of Education has been signed. It is being registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. We hope that in the near future it will be assigned a number and it will come into force,” said the head of the region.

Last year, in the border regions of Russia, high school students allowed enter universities not based on the results of the Unified State Exam, but on the basis of current academic performance and within the framework of “entrance tests in the form of an interview.”

Applicants received grades on a 100-point system in the same way as based on exam results. 9th grade graduates from border areas also didn’t pass main state exam (OGE), and received a certificate on the basis of an intermediate certification.

Due to regular shelling from the Belgorod region to other regions transported more than 9 thousand children. If the tense situation in the border areas continues, they will remain in safe places until the end of the school year.

The Belgorod region is subjected to daily shelling from Ukraine. Over the two weeks of last month, 152 civilians were injured in attacks and 24 were killed. Damage got more than 1.5 thousand apartments and houses.

Sergey Tolmachev, Voronezh