Electronic unified national testing to appear in Kazakhstan

AKIPRESS.COM - Kazakhstan plans to switch to the electronic unified national testing, Minister of Education and Science Askhat Aimagambetov told a conference of teachers in Nur-Sultan, Zakon.kz reports.
"We plan a transformation of the procedure of holding of the unified national testing itself. I would say here that there are cases when pupils find ways od cheating the system - use cellphones, think more about how to get more scores not based on their knowledge, but on the basis of other tools. Therefore, we plan to switch to electronic system of passing unified national testing gradually," the Minister said.
Aimagambetov added that the unified national testing should guarantee transparency and justice of grand allocation.
The highest scores in the testing - 140 - were gained by Kasymzhan Jubai, who finished the Saryagysh school in Turkestan region this year. More than 70,000 pupils have been tested this year.