The education and science, youth and sports minister of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk is satisfied with the attainment level of the applicants, he told a press conference on the first results of the admission campaign 2012, ForUm correspondent reports.
"The number of applicants is very large this year. Among them, there are more than 430 winners of the final stage of the All-Ukrainian competitions for basic subjects and 417 members of the Junior Academy of Sciences, who defended their research work on the third stage," he said.
According to the minister, the number of applicants, scored more than 185 points during independent external testing, exceeds 30 thousand.
"The leading universities set 140 points passing grade for their core subjects. The National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute" set 150-160 points passing grade for core subject. The same story is in the National University "Lviv Polytechnic" and the National Aviation University. The general passing grade in the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National Universityset makes up 150-160 points and 170 points for some subjects. In addition, the average enrolment competition in this university is 14 people per a place," Tabachnyk said.
