This year, high school graduates were required to take three exams instead of the usual four centralized exams, namely the Latvian language, mathematics and, optionally, one foreign language exam.
math
This year, the highest results in the centralized examination of mathematics were achieved at RTU Secondary School of Engineering, where the average grade among 24 examiners is 92%, and at Riga State 1st Gymnasium, where the average results of 208 students are 89%.
Habad Jewish Private Secondary School has also achieved high results in the mathematics exam, where the average performance of 31 students is 72%, and Riga State 3rd Gymnasium, where the average score of 173 students is 69%. Almost as many or 68.9% of the students of the Eastern Latvian Secondary School of Technology managed to reach the mathematics exam.
The lowest results in the mathematics exam were registered at the Vecpiebalga counseling center of Cēsis Secondary School No. 2, where two students have chosen to take this exam and their average result has been 6.2%. The second lowest result is in the College of Entrepreneurship of the Banking Institution of Higher Education, where one person has chosen to take this exam and received 7.7%.
Latvian Language
Also in the centralized exam in Latvian, the highest results were achieved at RTU Secondary School of Engineering, where the average grade of students is 82%. 80.4% have been achieved by 159 students of Āgenskalns State Gymnasium, but 80% – by 86 12th grade students of Riga French Lyceum. Four students of Alfreds Kalnins Cesis Music Secondary School managed to reach almost the same or 79.8%, but 207 students of Riga State 1st Gymnasium managed to get an average rating of 79%.
The lowest result in the Latvian language exam was registered at Daugavpils Construction Technical School, where the average indicator of 64 students is 20.2%. The result is 0.5 percentage points higher in the Kraslava territorial unit of the Vocational Education Competence Center (PIKC) Riga State Technical School, where the average result of 25 students is 20.7%. The third lowest result was found in Riga East Secondary School, where the average result of 12 students is 22%.
English
In its turn, 177 students of Riga State 1st Gymnasium showed the highest results in the English language exam, reaching the average grade of 92.8%. Pupils of RTU Secondary School of Engineering managed to get an average of 92%, but Riga State 2nd Gymnasium – 90.7%. From the regional schools, the highest average grade in the English language exam was obtained at Gulbene County State Gymnasium, where 27 pupils obtained an average of 88.8%.
However, the lowest results in the English language exam were registered at the place of implementation of Malnava College educational programs “Višķi”, where the average grade of nine students is 20%. At the same time, the average rating of 27 students in the Kraslava territorial unit of the PIKC Riga State Technical School is 27% and the third lowest result is in Daugavpils Construction Technical School, where the average rating of 63 students is 31.5%.
French
In total, six students wrote the exam in French, and the highest result in this exam was registered for a student of Riga Secondary School No. 22, who obtained 86.3%, while a student of Riga Secondary School of Culture obtained 84.5%. The third highest average result in the French language exam was registered at the Riga French Lyceum, where four students received an average of 70.2%.
German
In turn, in the German language centralized examination, the highest result was achieved by a student of Dobele State Gymnasium, who obtained 98.4% in the examination, as well as a student of Jelgava Spidola State Gymnasium. At the Riga State 2nd Gymnasium, the German language exam was taken by two students, whose average grade is 93.2%, but at Iecava Secondary School, one student has obtained 91.6%.
On the other hand, the lowest result in the German language exam was registered at the Emīls Dārziņš Music School, where one student chose to take this exam, the result of which is 53.4%. The second lowest result is for a student from Dāvis Ozoliņš Ape Secondary School, who received 53.7%.
Russian language
At the same time, the highest average score in the Russian language exam was achieved by two people who registered the University of Latvia as their place of writing the exam – the average score of both passers is 95%. Two students of the Vocational Education Competence Center “Ventspils Music Secondary School” managed to get an average of 94%, while two students of Riga State 1st Gymnasium – 93.3%.
In turn, the lowest average indicator in Russian is registered in the place of implementation of Ogre technical school programs in Ranka, where one student has chosen to write the Russian language exam, the result of which is 23.3%. In second place is Zaļenieki Commercial and Craft Secondary School, where the average grade of two examiners is 25.5%.
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It has already been reported that this year the results of students in the centralized examinations have not changed significantly compared to last year, however, the performance of students in the compulsory examinations is a few percentage points higher than in previous years, VISC said.
Compared to last year, the average performance of students has improved by eight percentage points in the centralized exam in English, reaching 70%. In English, this is the highest result since 2009. The results have also increased in French, where the highest figure has been reached since 2009. In 2019, the average performance of students in the French language exam was 69%, however, this year the average results of students reached 75%.
The average results have also improved by three percentage points in German, where the average result of students has increased to 74%, which is the highest average performance since 2009.
