It was in a suit and tie that Kristof Pap presented himself last Monday to his Hungarian test in his private high school in Pécs, in the south of Hungary. The 19-year-old is not going to forget the 2020 vintage of the baccalaureate, which takes place only in writing. He was given a mask on arrival and, after disinfecting his hands with hydroalcoholic gel, he took a seat in an open window room with six other young people, three meters away, more than the minimum required (10 students per class and 1.5 m). Only the guards wore gloves and all of them displayed their masks in the hallways. However, the temperature was not measured.
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Like Kristof, there are 70,000 aspiring high school graduates until mid-May on the Hungarian baccalaureate exams, which is essential to access university. “ Everything went well in terms of logistics and health, and the tests have been rather easy so far, except English! ", Asserts the high school student
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