Thousands of school leavers in Kazakhstan fail to pass UNT

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - 84,079 school leavers have passed the Unified National Testing (UNT) from 2 till 9 June 2016, Kazinform has learnt from the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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"84,079 school leavers, including 61,739 with the Kazakh language of instruction and 22,340 with the Russian language of instruction, have taken the Unified National Testing (UNT) from 2 till 9 June 2016. 14, 252 (16,95%) of school leavers failed to score the minimum required number of points - 50, including 10,267 with the Kazakh language of instruction and 3,985 with the Russian language of instruction," the ministry said in a statement.

16,565 school leavers scored over 100 points. It is worth mentioning that 19 test takers scored the maximum possible number of points - 125.