The average is 54.9 points
This year’s state Lithuanian language exam was easy for the high school graduates – they shared such impressions when they left it on June 5.
However, the results showed that not everyone found the tasks of this exam as easy as they might have expected. According to the data of the National Education Agency, 17,357 candidates took the Lithuanian language and literature maturity exam. 91.1 percent passed the exam, so almost 9 percent of those who took it had to retake it (92.8 percent passed last year). 314 candidates received a score of 100 points, ie 1.8 percent. of all candidates who took the exam (2% last year).
The threshold for passing the Lithuanian language and literature exam was 30 points out of 100 possible. The average of the exam results is 54.9 points (41-43 points), which is slightly more than in 2023, when the average score was 56.3 points.
The result made me happy as well
Anastasija, a Ukrainian girl from Zaporizhia, who came to Lithuania just a year and a half ago, easily surpassed the average bar and raised it much higher. That’s when she started learning the Lithuanian language, entering the eleventh grade of the Riešė Gymnasium.
This year, she graduated from high school and took five exams, including the state Lithuanian language exam.
Anastasija’s result is excellent, she got 88 points, which means she got 81 points, which is 26 points more than the average score for this exam.
“Yes, very satisfied,” Anastasija said fluently in Lithuanian when asked if she was satisfied with this result.
We often hear foreigners, and Lithuanians themselves, complaining about how difficult our language is. And Anastasia proved that if you have the desire and put in the effort, everything will become possible.
I was very lucky with my teachers, classmates, they all helped me a lot. And I myself was very interested in learning that language. I fell in love with Lithuania, Lithuanian people and the Lithuanian language. That’s how I learned.
“I came to Lithuania two years ago, I only started attending a Lithuanian school in the fall. I studied this for about a year and a half.
I don’t know how it is. I was very lucky with teachers, classmates, they all helped me a lot. And I myself was very interested in learning that language. You could say that I fell in love with Lithuania, the Lithuanian people and the Lithuanian language. That’s how I learned little by little”, said Anastasia, modestly thanking her for her fluent Lithuanian language with a barely audible accent.
Personal archive photo/Anastasija Bichuk
He dreams of studying in Vilnius
The girl brought back to Lithuania by the war had no connection with Lithuania or the Lithuanian language until then.
“I am thinking of studying here – this year I will try to enter Vilnius University, in economics. I really hope it will work. And if not, I’ll probably just work. I would like to stay in Lithuania”, Anastasija shares her immediate plans.
During the Lithuanian language exam, she chose a reasoning essay on the topic “When is it accessible to extremes?” She admits that she hasn’t really had time to read all the works of Lithuanian authors yet, she has only read excerpts from textbooks, while foreign authors have so far read in Russian or Ukrainian.
Pauliaus Peleckis/BNS photo/Vilnius Antakalnis high school holds the Lithuanian language and literature maturity exam
“And I listened very carefully during the lessons,” Anastasia smiled.
In addition to the state Lithuanian language exam, she also took the English, Russian, history and math exams. Their results also make Anastasia happy, because she got 83 in English, 77 in history, 70 in mathematics, and 100 in Russian.
She does not hide that she studied well at home, in Ukraine, but the move undoubtedly required additional efforts.
Tried to include in various activities
According to Egidija Urbanavičienė, director of Riešės Gymnasium, Anastasija came to their school a year and a half ago – in November 2022 and started studying in the eleventh grade.
According to the director, it wasn’t easy, so about a month later, she invited the girl’s mother to discuss what the school and its community could do to help.
Photo by Pauliaus Peleckis/BNS/Director of Riešė Gymnasium Egidija Urbanavičienė
“Mom was maybe even a little scared of that invitation to the director, but we talked – I asked what we could be useful for, how we could help. And then we agreed that we would try to include Anastasia everywhere. While organizing various trips, we took Anastasia everywhere, to all excursions. She drove everywhere and probably that informal communication with her peers really helps.
And the class teacher never let us forget about Anastasia. We all raised her together,” the director said with a smile.
The director does not hide that there are students who did not pass this exam in their school this year, however, this does not overshadow the pride of Anastasia, who is going to continue to be offered the help she may need.
Source: www.15min.lt
