Lithuanian Education System

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Lithuanian Education System
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Primary education curriculum

• Moral education
• Lithuanian language
• Foreign language compulsory from the 4th year
• (from 2000-2001 schools may choose to offer
  early foreign language teaching starting from the
  second year
• in 2006 a ministerial order approved An
  Implementation Programme of Compulsory Early
  Language Teaching according to which all pupils
  in their second year of primary education will
  learn a foreign language)
• Perception and understanding of the world
• Mathematics
• Arts and technologies
• Music
• Physical training

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Lower secondary education

• Lower secondary curriculum from 5 to10 forms
• In lower secondary, youth schools, gymnasiums and
  vocational schools
• On completion of lower secondary programme the
  pupils may choose to take an external qualifying
  test of attainment in two subjects (mathematics
  and mother tongue)

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Lower secondary curriculum

• moral education (religion or ethics)
• the Lithuanian language, native language (for
  national minorities), two foreign languages,
• mathematics
• Natural sciences (Nature and man in forms 5-6,
  biology and physics form 7, chemistry form 8)
• Computer science,
• History, civic education, geography,
• Arts, music, technologies
• Physical training

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Upper secondary education

• On completion of lower secondary curriculum
• A two year curriculum for the 11-12 forms
• Secondary schools, gymnasiums and vocational
  schools
• After completing secondary education curriculum
  secondary education level is attained

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Reform in curricular diversificationat upper
secondary level

• as of the school year 2007/2008 curriculum is
  offered by way of individualized provision
• 60 of the curriculum is made up of the core
  curriculum compulsory to all pupils, while the
  rest pupils can choose of their own accord

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Upper secondary education
In the course of two years of upper secondary
education students learn from 9 to 13
subjects Students may choose to learn
compulsary subjects either level B ( involves
only basic knowledge of the subject) or level A
(is oriented towards deeper and wider knowledge
of the subject)
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Upper secondary school-leaving examination

• national state examinations
• pupils scripts are marked by external examiners
• Normative assesment is used and results are
  ranked on 1-100 point scale
• school-based examinations
• pupils scripts are marked by the school teachers
  on the basis of criteria defined by an external
  body - the National Examination Centre (the scale
  is recorded on 10 point scale)
• both types of exams are set by an external body -
  the National Examination Centre
• the Lithuanian Language one compulsory
• examination
• To get school leaving certificate 3 obligatory
  examinations should be taken
• Maximum number of examinations each student can
  take is 6