The First Session of the End of Primary Benchmark will be held between May30  and June 6 for Year 6 students in State Schools and those in Church or Independent Schools who will be participating in the First Session, the Education Department said.

The Second Session will be held at Floriana Primary School in Malta and at the Examination Centre in Victoria, Gozo, between June 18 and 22 June between 5.00 pm and 8.00 pm.

Application forms for the Second Session are intended for those Year 6 pupils who currently attend a Church or an Independent School who will not be participating in the First Session. These application forms may be collected from the Customer Care Unit, Education Directorates, Floriana or The Education Office, Victoria, Gozo, as from 7 May 2012. Alternatively, an application form may be downloaded from the website http://www.curriculum.gov.mt

Applications must reach the Customer Care Unit, Education Directorates, Floriana, or the Education Office, Victoria, Gozo, not later than May18. A passport-sized photo is to be submitted together with the application form. The photo needs to be signed by an authorised person (such as the Head of School), verifying that it is a true image of the applicant.

In the case of other candidates, who were sick or absent in the First Session for any Benchmark component, the Educational Assessment Unit will automatically assume that they will be sitting the missed component/s, in the Second Session. These candidates therefore need not apply. However, on returning to school, after the end of the First Session of the Benchmark, these candidates need to submit to their school a passport-sized photo which has been signed by an authorised person (such as the Head of School), verifying that the photo is a true image of the applicant.

Requests for Exemptions from any Benchmark component, or requests for the provision of Access Arrangements, will be considered on the submission of the requested evidence provided for the First Session.

For more information contact the Educational Assessment Unit on 25982139.

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