The NMT-2026 costs the government over 1,000 hryvnias per participant — UCEQA
Administering the National Multisubject Test in 2026 will cost the government 1,070 hryvnias per participant. This was announced by Tetiana Vakulenko, director of the Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment.
According to her, this amount covers all stages of test preparation and administration—from developing and reviewing test items to paying staff at testing centers.
“This year, the cost per student is 1,070 hryvnias,” Vakulenko noted.
The cost also includes compensation for instructors working directly at testing sites and other involved specialists.
As a reminder, during the NMT, graduates take a four-hour test covering four subjects: Ukrainian language, mathematics, Ukrainian history, and one elective subject.
Source: Glavkom.
Earlier, the Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment commented on the situation in the Odesa region, where participants in the National Multisubject Test spent nearly 13 hours at the testing center due to prolonged air raid alerts. According to the agency, graduates were offered the option to reschedule the exam for an additional session, but they refused and decided to wait until the testing was completed and take the NMT on the same day.
An alternative bill to change the format of the National Multisubject Test (NMT) has been registered in the Verkhovna Rada. The document proposes reducing the number of subjects to be tested from four to three. In this case, mathematics would be an elective subject.
