It concerns millions of students... MEB announced: A new era in education

The Ministry of National Education (MEB) announced its new application that will change the measurement and evaluation system in secondary and high schools.

The introduction of the "Joint Written Examination System" was held with a program held at Istanbul Ataşehir Ahmet Keleşoğlu Science High School.

The system will be implemented starting from the first written exams of the first semester of the 2026-2027 academic year.

Speaking at the program, the Deputy Minister of National Education stated that measurement and evaluation are not seen as a process performed only at the end of the education process and that the new approach aims to improve the student and the teacher.

TO BE APPLIED IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS

The new system will be implemented in Turkish, mathematics, science, social studies, religious culture and ethics, and English classes in the 5th, 6th and 7th grades of secondary schools.

In high schools, in the 9th, 10th and 11th grades, Turkish language and literature, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography, philosophy, religious culture and ethics, and English courses will be included in the system.

Thus, the application will cover a total of 16 branches.

SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WILL COME FROM THE MINISTRY'S POOL

In the preparation of the exams, the subject and question distribution tables determined by the group teachers at the beginning of the academic year will be taken as basis.

Two questions regarding the learning outcomes in the selected scenario will be prepared by the common decision of the group teachers. Other questions of the exam will be automatically selected from the question pool created by the Ministry, according to the difficulty levels determined by the teachers.

Teachers' evaluations will be taken as basis in categorizing the questions as easy, medium and difficult and determining the point values.

OPEN-ENDED AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPPORTED QUESTIONS

In the new system, it is planned to use artificial intelligence-supported question generation and evaluation processes in addition to open-ended questions.

With the application, MEB aims to evaluate students in different schools and regions with similar measurement tools and to make their end-of-year success scores more comparable.

However, the system created controversy among educators before it was even implemented.

With the first application of the new system, the evaluation of open-ended questions, the functioning of the artificial intelligence-supported question pool, and how the differences between schools will be reflected in the exam results will be closely monitored.