Education and Science, Latvia, Society

Just as in 2015, students' performance is rated in percentages – total percentage and percentage for each individual exam.

234 students' results in Latvian language exam and mathematics exam (35 and 199 respectively) were under 5% this year. Last year there were 106 such students.

This year Latvian pupils’ results in the English and Latvian centralized graduation exams have improved.

Lower levels were recorded in Chemistry, Russian as a foreign language, and much lower performance was demonstrated in the World History and Mathematics.

Centralized exam results are presented in percentage. The results in foreign language exams are presented in line with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages – levels C1 (95-100%), B2 (70-94%), B1 (40-69%) and lower levels presented in percentage only.

As many as 35 pupils this year scored below 5% in the Latvian language and 199 pupils scored below 5% in Maths.

More detailed analysis of results will be presented in early September, wile general statistical data will be published on the Internet website of the National Center for Education on July 1.

The National Center for Education today issued 19,427 exam certificates to highschool graduates.

Maths, the Latvian language and a foreign language are mandatory state exams for highschool leavers. Slightly more than 14,000 pupils took exams in Maths and the Latvian language, almost 13,000 pupils had chosen to take an exam in English, 2,500 pupils took the Russian language exam, and 93 pupils took a German exam.