Middle Years Programme 4 — Admission criteria

Admission criteria for the MYP 4 class in the International IB Middle Years Programme (MYP 4 — 1st year of a four-year grammar school) in the school year 2024/2025

On the basis of the consent of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic No.2023/14584:3-C2902 we are opening one class with the number of pupils 20 at the Gymnázium, Šrobárova 1, Košice in the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme.

These conditions have been developed for specific categories of pupils that fall into one of the following criteria:
These are:

  1. Pupils with Slovak citizenship who study in Slovakia in international programmes:
    1. studying in the IB MYP in Slovakia — they will be admitted by transfer, to be admitted to the MYP 4 the legal guardians need to provide the pupil’s report cards for the last 2 years and a completed application form for the programme,
    2. studying in another international programme — in order to be eligible for admission to MYP 4, pupils must pass a mathematics transfer exam in English, provide their report cards for the last two years of study and a completed application form.
  2. Foreign nationals may be admitted to the program upon presentation of a recommendation from a previous school, report cards for the last two years of study and a completed program application form.
  3. Pupils who successfully complete the 1st year of 7902J74 with English as the language of instruction and pupils who successfully complete the 4th year of 7902J with an eight-year programme of study may be admitted by transfer. In order to meet the conditions for admission to MYP 4 by transfer, pupils must successfully pass a transfer examination in mathematics in English and provide their report cards for the last two years of study, the decision on admission to the secondary school and the parents‘ (legal guardians‘) application for transfer to the Gymnázium, Šrobárova 1 in Košice, to the MYP 4 programme.

Pupils who are in Year 9 of a primary school in the Slovak Republic with a national curriculum in the school year 2023/2024 must meet the standard conditions for admission to secondary school, which are regulated in the document — Conditions for admission to the IB MYP 4 international programme class in the school year 2024/2025 (PDF — 226 kB) →.

Mgr. PaedDr. Zlatica Frankovičová,
riaditeľka školy