Option 1 will be written today by the seventh-graders of the national external assessment in mathematics, which starts at 10:00.

The exam version, out of two possible, was withdrawn minutes ago at the Ministry of Education and Science (MES), in the presence of Deputy Minister of Education and Science Maria Gaidarova.

More than 110,000 seventh-graders and tenth-graders are expected to take part in the national external assessment in mathematics today.

They will take the exams in the schools where they study.

Students will be admitted to the buildings against an identity document.

They have to write with a black pen.

In the external assessment in mathematics, students can use a scroll with formulas.

110,000 students in 7th and 10th grade are taking the math exam today

The math exam for more than 60,000 seventh-graders lasts 150 minutes.

Students must have entered the classrooms no later than 9:30 p.m. 

In 150 minutes, seventh graders have to solve 23 tasks.

A total of 18 of them require one correct answer out of four possible.

Two have a short free answer - numerical, symbolic or verbal.

Three tasks require an extended free answer - to describe and argue the implementation of a particular mathematical problem.

By 8:30 am, more than 52,000 tenth-graders must be in class.

Their external evaluation starts at 9:00.

The test in mathematics for tenth graders has 17 tasks, of which 15 are with an optional answer, and two - with an extended free answer with the necessary justifications.

The exam lasts 90 minutes.

The maximum number of points in all exams is 100. Points are not converted into grades. 

The grade from the national external assessment in seventh grade is used as a ball-forming element in the admission of students in eighth grade.

With the result in the tenth grade, the students from the united schools apply for the places from the additional admission plan for continuing their education in the second high school stage.

On June 14, the national external assessment in Bulgarian language and literature took place in seventh and tenth grade.