An instructor

An instructor watching school-leavers during carrying out of independent external texting on history of Ukraine in one of schools of Kharkiv, on Wednesday, May 6, 2009. 195 thousand 118 participants of independent external texting in 13 thousand 322 rooms started work on 70 tasks on History of Ukraine. 33 thousand 444 people are involved in carrying out of the testing. Majority participants of the independent external texting expressed a desire to have test tasks on Ukrainian language – 78.1%, 21.6% out of registered participants expressed a desire to have test tasks on Russian language. 0.1% of participants received test tasks on Hungarian language. The number of school-leavers, who expressed a desire to have test tasks on History of Ukraine was twice less in 2008– 98 thousand 980 people. Photo by Vladimir Andreev /UNIAN