The eighth-grade exam is on May 13. This year, it will be held under new rules.

• The eighth-grade exam will be held on May 13-15
• This year students will have more time to solve tasks.
• The eighth-grade exam - as the Ministry of Education reminds - is not an exam that can be failed (there is no specified pass threshold).

The eighth-grade exam will be held on May 13-15: on May 13, eighth-grade students will take the Polish language exam, on May 14 - in mathematics, and on May 15 - in a modern foreign language. An additional date for the eighth-grade exam for students who will not be able to take it on the main date has been set for June 10-12.

The eighth-grade exam is conducted in the last year of primary school. "It is a mandatory exam, taking it is one of the conditions for completing school," emphasizes the Ministry of National Education. A winner/finalist of an Olympiad or a winner of a provincial/supra-provincial competition may be exempted from the eighth-grade exam in a given subject.

However, the results of the eighth-grade exam are very important because they are taken into account when recruiting to post-primary schools.

This year, students will have more time to write. The Polish language test will take 150 minutes instead of 120, the math test will take 125 minutes instead of 100, and the foreign language test will take 110 minutes instead of an hour and a half.

In 2025, students will learn their results and receive certificates with detailed results of the eighth-grade exam on July 4. The certificate will include the percentage result and the percentile scale result for the exam in each subject.

The percentage score is the percentage of points (rounded to the nearest whole number) that a student earned for tasks in a given subject.

The percentile score is the percentage of eighth-grade students (rounded to the nearest whole number) who achieved the same or lower score on an exam in a given subject than the candidate.

For example, a student who scored 78% of the possible points in Polish (percentile score) will learn from their certificate that 73% of all candidates scored the same or lower (percentile score), which means that 27% of candidates scored higher. The percentile score allows you to compare your score with the scores of students across the country.

The eighth-grade exam - as the Ministry of Education reminds - is not an exam that can be failed (there is no specified pass threshold).