How to apply for a master's degree program

The CT includes:

• test in a foreign language (optional English, German, French),
• test to determine the readiness to study in Kazakh or Russian (optional).

The number of CT tasks is:

• test on a foreign language - 50;
• test to determine the readiness for study - 30, of which: critical thinking - 15, analytical thinking - 15.

The maximum number of CT points is 80 points.

The CT takes 2 hours 5 minutes.

A master's degree program not only in the Republic of Kazakhstan, but throughout the world implies post-graduate education for students who already have had a bachelor's degree. Accordingly, the Master's degree is awarded to those who have fully mastered the Master's degree educational programs.

A master's degree is not a second higher education, but an educational level following a bachelor's degree, a kind of step along which the student rises on the path of obtaining special disciplines and improving his qualifications. This is the main difference from the undergraduate program.

In addition, the duration of study and the conditions of admission differ. So, to get a master's degree, it will take 1-2 years, and you cannot enter a master's program without going through a bachelor's degree.

For admission to the master program, you must pass a comprehensive test (CT).

During the CT, the applicant is not allowed:

• to leave the auditorium without permission and accompaniment of a representative of the Ministry, who acts as a person on duty along the corridor;
• to talk;
• change a seat from place to place;
• exchange the test materials;
• take the testing materials out of the audience;
• to bring into the building and classroom, to have, to use the textbooks and methodological literature, a calculator, a camera, any mobile means of communication with information transfer functions (pager, cell phones, tablets, iPad, iPod, SmartPhone, laptops, players, modems (mobile routers), use any kind of radio-electronic communication Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Dect, 3G, 4G, 5G, smart watches, wired and wireless headphones, etc., cheat sheets;
• damage to the testing materials (answer sheets and books) by crumpling them, using corrective fluid, tearing off pages;
• filling in the sectors not provided for (such as a number of the answer sheet).

CT for the applicants to master program with the Kazakh or Russian language of study includes:

• test on a foreign language (optional English, German, French),
• test on profile of a group of educational programs,
• test to determine the readiness for learning in the Kazakh or Russian language (optional).

The number of CT tasks is:

• test on a foreign language - 50;
• test to determine the readiness for learning - 30, of which: in critical thinking - 15, in analytical thinking - 15;
• test on profile of the group of educational programs - 50, of which: on the first profile discipline - 30, on the second profile discipline - 20.

The maximum CT score is 150.

The CT takes 3 hours 55 minutes.

When starting for testing, the applicants are entered into the building one at a time, while the identity of the applicant is identified on the basis of identity document, followed by verification of a pass and the back of the pass.

At the same time, applicants who have an identity document or a passport and who have submitted the application in online registration in the automated system are entered and identified through a scanner of the volumetric-spatial shape of the person's face.

During CT, devices are used that suppress signals from mobile and radio-electronic communications, as well as receive a protocol for measuring electromagnetic field.

The assistants are provided from among the persons who are not the teachers of disciplines taken within the framework of CT for the disabled, including the disabled people with visual impairment, malfunctions of musculoskeletal system and (or) a sign language specialist for the disabled and the people with hearing loss upon presentation of a document on the establishment of disability.

The opportunity to participate in one of the following days during the CT period is given to the person who did not take part in the CT on the day specified in the pass, for valid reasons:

• for health reasons, in the presence of the conclusion of the medical consultation commission, in accordance with the form No. 026 y;
• in the presence of documents confirming the death of close relatives;
• in emergency situations.

On the completion of CT by August 23 of this year, the Republican State Enterprise "National Testing Center" of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan has reviewed video records of the testing.

In case of detection of the use of one of the prohibited items by the applicant during the CT, the test results (CT scores) are canceled.

In case of disagreement with the results of CT, the applicant submits an application addressed to the chairman of the appeal commission. The applicant must have with him an identity document and a pass to the CT.

Applications for the appeal are accepted until 13.00 o'clock the next day after the announcement of the CT results and are considered by the appeal (republican appeal commission) commission within one calendar day.

If the applicant does not appear at the meeting of the appeal commission, his application for the appeal is not considered.

The decision of the Republican appeal commission is final and not subject to revision.

The CT results and an electronic certificate are published on the website of the RSE National Testing Center.

Filling in a full name (if any) in an electronic certificate in the information system are produced according to an identity document.

The electronic certificate contains data on the received CT scores for each block signed with an electronic digital signature of the RSE "National Testing Center".

To participate in CT, an applicant submits the following documents to the admissions office of a linear university and / or through the information system:

• application;
• a document on higher education (original, when submitting documents to the admission committee);
• a copy of the identity document;
• two photographs of the size 3x4 centimeters;
• medical documentation in the form 075- У in electronic format;
• a receipt for payment for participation in CT.

People with disabilities such as visual impairments, hearing impairments, and the malfunctions of musculoskeletal system, upon presentation of a document confirming their disability, additionally, if necessary, submit an application for the assistance to be provided during the CT:

• a separate audience;
• an assistant who is not a teacher of the CT disciplines tested for the visually impaired, with the malfunctions of musculoskeletal system and (or) a sign language specialist for the disabled with hearing impairment.

The CT includes:

• test on profile of the group of educational programs in English,
• test to determine the readiness for learning in Kazakh or Russian or in English (optional).

The number of CT test tasks is:

• a test to determine the readiness for learning - 30, of which: critical thinking - 15, analytical thinking - 15;
• a test on profile of the group of educational programs - 50, of which: on the first profile discipline -30, on the second profile discipline - 20.

The maximum number of points is 100 points.

The CT takes 2 hours 40 minutes.

The deadline for accepting applications will be as follows:

1) from June 1 to July 8 of the calendar year;

2) from October 28 to November 10 of the calendar year.

Comprehensive testing (hereinafter referred to as CT) is carried out in the following terms:

1) from July 20 to August 10 of the calendar year

2) from November 18 to December 11 of the calendar year.

The cost of participation in the CT is 14 693 tenge.

The CT results are announced on the day of taking it and posted on the information stand, as well as posted on the website www.testcenter.kz.