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Slovenia
Name of the qualification in original language
Spričevalo o poklicni maturi (+Obvestilo o uspehu pri poklicni maturi)
Translation in English
Vocational Matura certificate
Report on achievement
Transliteration in Latin alphabet
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Awarding body
National Examination Centre;
Secondary technical and Vocational Schools
Total number of years of schooling
13 (9+4) technical education;
14 (9+3+2) vocational technical education
General requirements for access to higher education
The Vocational Matura gives access to first cycle professional study programmes.
Candidates wishing to enroll in academic study programmes must pass the Vocational Matura as well as one subject of the General Matura. Such enrolment is possible for the majority of academic study programmes. Exams from different subjects are required for different academic study programmes – this is evident from the yearly Call for Enrolment.
EQF level
EOK 4
NQF level
SOK 5
Grading system
Achievement in written, oral or practical parts of the exam and a validation is expressed in marks and in the proportions as defined by subject syllabi and marking schemes. The final score in each Matura exam is the combined sum of points achieved by a candidate in individual parts of the exam. The highest score in any individual subject is a hundred percent (100%).
Criteria for the conversion of points into grades (i.e. how many percentage points are required in any individual subject for each grade) are determined nationally. The conversion of points into grades in accordance with the defined criteria is done by school committees for the Vocational Matura for all subjects and for all candidates of a school.
Achievement in the Vocational Matura is expressed by the classic five-grade scale comprising grades Insufficient (1), Sufficient (2), Good (3), Very Good (4) and Excellent (5). Candidates pass the exam in each subject if they get at least Grade 2.
For the grades expressed in points in first subject Slovene (Italian, Hungarian) a different scale is used (awarding additional points – up to 8 total).
General Achievement in the Vocational Matura
Candidates pass the Vocational Matura if they get a positive grade in all Matura exams. Candidates also obtain Grade 2 if they achieve at least 80% of the points required for Grade 2 in the subject in question and at least Grade 3 in all other subjects.
General achievement is expressed in points and represents the sum of achieved grades (or grades expressed in marks) in all subjects. In the first subject of the Vocational Matura, positive grades are grades from 2 to 8, and in other subjects from 2 to 5, which means that the highest possible score is 23 points (1 x 8 + 3 x 5 points).
Period of issue
presented sample since 2016 -
Expiry date
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Verification information
Državni izpitni center
Kajuhova ulica 32 U
SI - 1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija
T: 00386 1 548 4600
info@ric.si
Comments/Additional Information
Vocational matura is a national (school leaving) exam giving access to Higher education after:
- 4 year technical programmes
- vocational technical programmes (2 years, after prior completed 3 year vocational programme)
- one-year vocational course (prior finished 4 years of general secondary education).
Vocational Matura Certificate is usually issued in the Slovenian language and sometimes in the Slovenian-Italian and Slovenian-Hungarian language versions (where Italian or Hungarian minority lives).
Vocational matura:
- national examination;
- externally designed tests (national level);
- taken before a school examination committee that may include external professionals;
- exams in four subjects: two compulsory: mother tongue (Slovene and either Hungarian or Italian in ethnically mixed areas) and specialization subject; elective exam (mathematics or foreign language), practical work (seminar, product or service) with an oral presentation.