At Zaporizhzhya National University the traditional handing of the certificates of graduation from the Preparatory Department took place. This year, nearly 500 university entrants, graduates of the city and region, during the school year were preparing for entering the higher education institutions on the basis of our university.
The Preparatory Department of our university operates ever since of Zaporizhzhya State Pedagogical Institute and uses the continued popularity among the students. This time as in the previous years, qualified teachers prepare prospective students for admission in all fields of training. Traditionally, the most popular among high school students are such specialties as “Law”, “English”, “Psychology” and “Journalism”.
Final attestation at the Preparatory Department has the form of test from three subjects that prospective students learn during the school year. The Ukrainian language and literature Test is obligatory.
School graduates, who have studied in such fields of study as natural sciences and mathematics and engineering (“Chemistry”, “Biology”, “Ecology, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources”, “Mathematics”, “Physics”, “Applied Physics”, “Applied Mathematics” “Informatics”, “Program Engineering”, “Forestry and Horticulture”) will receive additional points, which are indicated in the certificate as a result of final certification during admission campaign. All other graduates of the Preparatory Department will receive “preferential right” entering our university.
Although such benefits are applied only to the entrants at our university, among the visitors of the preparatory courses there were also those who were going to enter the other universities. They have chosen to study training courses at ZNU for raising their awareness and psychological adaptation to learning at the higher educational establishment.
Thus, the listener of the preparatory department in “Law”, graduate of Zaporizhzhya gymnasium №46 Igor Tyutyunnik wants to submit his documents to both our university and Dnipropetrovsk National University, and his groupmate, a student of Zaporizhzhya lyceum №34 Christina Kyreyko wants to pursue her higher education exactly at our University. The graduate of ZNB №109 Anna Boyko while entering the preparatory courses chose the specialty co
urses “Biology” and wants to submit her documents to ZNU or to Melitopol State Pedagogical University. The graduate of Zaporizhzhya gymnasium №2 Maryna Vasyleyko, who during the nine months mastered at the preparatory courses of biology and chemistry, wants to continue studying at Zaporizhzhya National University.
Classes at the Preparatory Department continue until May, 31 and since already June, 3rd EIT, which by the way, will be held on the basis of our university, is waiting for the graduates.
The Head of the Preparatory Department Irina Bakalenko tells about the past academic year so: “This year at the preparatory department has passed traditionally: in the intense training. Our students are persistently preparing for their final state evaluation at school and their external independent evaluation. They systematized and summarized the knowledge gained during their studies at school, improved skills in solving tests; they became the participants of free trialware training that was conducted by our university, and became the participants of approbation testing materials of Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment. We hope that all this will contribute to the successful passage of their final evaluation at school and their external independent evaluation. I wish to all those who graduated at school of education high score with testing! We welcome graduates of the Preparatory Department on September 1, 2013 as the students of Zaporizhzhya National University.”
Tamila Tarasenko
