Defence Redefined

Published on 20/07/2020 at 12:16

The results of the Pancyprian Examinations 2020 for the Higher Education Institutions of Cyprus and the military schools of Greece were announced today.

Announcing the results, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, Prodromos Prodromou, said that with the publication of the results today, the cycle of this year’s Pancyprian Examinations (PE) is completed. Despite the imposed changes in the calendar due to extraordinary circumstances and the pandemic, the examinations were organized properly and with complete success.

“All the provisions of the current legislation have been followed strictly and without exception in order to ensure the integrity and objectivity that make these examinations an institution whose credibility is widely recognized,” he added.

As he mentioned, in this year’s Pancyprian Examinations, 7351 candidates initially applied for participation.

“Of these, 5318 claim access to Higher Education in Cyprus and Greece. With the current Distribution, 2809 places are available, of which 1757 are at the University of Cyprus, 870 at the Cyprus University of Technology, 94 at the Higher Hotel Institute of Cyprus and 88 in the Military Schools of Greece. The above numbers of places also include the supernumerary places that have been offered to the graduates of Technical Schools and Evening Schools,” he added.

Mr. Prodromou said that 7,295 candidates participated in the exams and 34,278 answer notebooks were received for a total of 53 access-graduation courses.

“In short, 34,278 papers were corrected. These were graded in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Legislation. Three hundred and ninety four teachers worked for the grading. Each answer book, which remained anonymous, was graded by two proofreaders. “In case there was a discrepancy larger than 10% between the two grades, the paper was re-assessed by a third examiner,” he noted.

As he said, according to the current legislation there is no case of re-examination or other re-evaluation.

“The overall control of the grades and the relevant sums is done by special software of the Examinations Service that leaves no room for error,” he added.

Informing the candidates / interested parties about the results of the Pancyprian Examinations 2020 for Higher Education Institutions of Cyprus will be done electronically on the website of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth at: www.moec.gov.cy.

Around July 23, the Examinations Service will announce the General Degree of Access / Classification of each candidate for the universities of Greece on the website of the Ministry of Education.

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Source: CNA