Organisation of the admission procedure

ORGANISATION OF THE ADMISSION PROCEDURE FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 2025/2026

Number of accepted applicants:

In the school year 2025/2026, two full-time classes will be opened:

Czech programme - branch 63-41-M/02 Business Academy in full-time form (max 26 pupils)
Czech-English programme - branch 63-41-M/02 Business Academy in the full-time form, combined with a major Business (max 26 pupils)

A maximum of 52 pupils will be admitted, with a maximum of 26 pupils per class.

The information below relates to 63-41-M/02 Business Academy

Dates of admissions 1st round:

1. Uniform Entrance Examinations in Czech language and mathematics are held 11 April 2025 and 14 April 2025, alternative dates: 29 April 2025 and 30 April 2025.

2. School Entrance Examinations held in the form of an oral interview with the candidates from 17 March 2025 to 25 April 2025 (by appointment), alternative dates: from 28 April 2025 to 5 May 2025.

Further rounds, if any, will be announced only if there are vacancies after the previous rounds.

Submitting an application for the 1st round of the admission procedure:

There are three ways to apply:

Electronic submission:

1. log in to the Digital Registration System (DiPSy) and select your child (the system is linked to the population register). Applications can be sent to from 1 February 2025 to 20 February 2025. In order to log in to the system, you need to set up the so-called. electronic identity.

2. Select 3 disciplines without talent testwhere you want to apply (see the system for full details of the courses).

3. You select the fields in order of priority (i.e. you place the school your child wants to get into the most in 1st place).

4. Upload attachments (photos, scans). In the system you will see what attachments the school requires for the field of study. For us, it's report cards from both semesters of 8th grade and the first half of 9th grade. A medical examination is not necessary for us.

5. You will confirm the submission of applications. You will receive a confirmation of your application to your email address. Applications must be submitted until 20 February 2025 at the latest.

Submission by extract from the system:

1. Even without an electronic identity, you can complete the application online. You can access the system without logging in and fill in all the details about yourself and your child.

2. Select 3 disciplines without talent testwhere you want to apply (see the system for full details of the courses).

3. You select the fields in order of priority (i.e. you place the school your child wants to get into the most in 1st place).

4. Upload attachments (photos, scans). In the system you will see what attachments the school requires for the field of study. For us, it's report cards from both semesters of 8th grade and the first half of 9th grade. A medical examination is not necessary for us.

5. You will confirm the submission of applications. You will receive a message with the completed application form (listing) to the email address you entered.

6. Print out the application form (without attachments), sign and deliver

Submission of a paper form:

1. Print a paper form for each schoolwhere you're reporting to. You can download the secondary school application form here: Application to secondary school.

2. In the form fill in all the details about yourself and your child.

3. Retrieved from school and course details and fill them in in the form (exact name, address, code and name of the field. For our school, the information is as follows:

Digital Academy - Business Academy, s.r.o.,
Pod Školou 167, 284 01 Kutná Hora - Malín;
63-41-M/02 Business Academy

4. You select the fields in order of priority (i.e. you place the school your child wants to get into the most in 1st place). The same order of majors must be maintained on all forms.

5. For each application you attach attachments in paper form (according to the school's conditions). For us it is the report card from both semesters of 8th grade and the first half of 9th grade. A medical examination is not required in our school.

6. Paper application form with attachments delivered by (by mail, in person or by post) to each school listed on the application form.

Paper applications can be submitted in person at the school's study department from Monday to Friday between 9:00 and 14:00.

The deadline for submitting an application is until 20 February 2025.

Instructions for completing the application form can also be found directly on the CZVV website: https://prijimacky.cermat.cz/menu/jednotna-prijimaci-zkouska/prihlasky-na-ss

Invitation to the entrance exam:

Candidates will receive an invitation to the single and school entrance examinations at least 14 days before
by taking this exam, either by sending a message in the system (for electronically submitted applications) or by email (for statements and forms).
The distribution for the single entrance examination, as well as the preparation of these tests and the evaluation of the test results, is provided by the Centre for the Determination of Educational Results (CZVV, Cermat). The distribution will be primarily based on the distance from the school to the applicant's place of residence and secondarily on the capacity of the school for the single entrance examination.

Determining the order:

The new ranking will be determined after the alternative deadline.

On 15 May 2025, the principal of the secondary school will publish the results of the admission procedure (dahora.cz website, notice board in front of the school building). Enrolment forms are no longer used. Decisions on admission or non-admission are not sent to applicants. Applicants can see the results of all the courses to which they have applied after the verification process has been completed in the system. If a candidate does not wish to enter the field of study to which he/she has been admitted, he/she will usually submit a 'renunciation' of his/her place in that field, and the school will enter this in the system. Only then will the guardian or the applicant be able to apply for a second or further round in other schools or subjects.

ADMISSION CRITERIA FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 2025/2026

Pursuant to Section 60 of Act No.561/2004 Coll., on pre-school, primary, secondary, higher vocational and other education, as amended, in accordance with Decree No.422/2023 Coll., laying down details on the organization of the admission procedure for education in secondary schools, as amended, I establish the following criteria for admission to education at Digital Academy - Obchodní akademie, s.r.o., Pod Školou 167, Kutná Hora - Malín for the year 2025/2026:

1. Candidates applying to the first year of the 63-41-M/02 Business Academy for full-time study must take the Unified Entrance Examination and the School Entrance Examination. They will be admitted to study on the basis of the overall assessment result and until the capacity is filled.

2. In the event of unfilled capacity, applicants will be admitted on the basis of the results of the single entrance examination and the school entrance examination until capacity is filled

Method of evaluation:

1. The maximum number of points that can be awarded is 166. The school has not set a minimum score for admission.

2. The result of the single entrance examination (published by the CZVV institution) will be weighted 60 % and will be included in the overall assessment of the admission procedure. The total number of points that can be obtained is 100 (Czech language 50 points and mathematics 50 points)

3. The average grade from the report card (1st and 2nd semesters of grade 8 and 1st semester of grade 9 of primary school or the equivalent year of a multi-year grammar school, the average of all compulsory subjects except behaviour is calculated) is also included in the overall grade, which has a weight of 10 %. The total number of points that can be obtained is 16. 16 points will be awarded for an overall average of 1.00 - 1.50, 10 points will be awarded for an overall average of 1.51 - 2.00 and 5 points will be awarded for an overall average of 2.01 - 2.50.

4. The result of the school entrance examination is included in the overall assessment with a weighting of 30 %, a total of 50 points can be obtained.

School entrance exam:

Pursuant to Section 60 of Act No.561/2004 Coll., on pre-school, primary, secondary, higher vocational and other education, as amended, and in accordance with Section 10 of Decree No.422/2023 Coll., on admissions to secondary education, the school principal has decided that the school entrance examination will take place in the form of an oral interview before an approved three-member committee. The content of the oral interview is mainly to determine the applicant's motivation to study at our school, the subtopics of the interview are motivation to study, general communication and communication in English. This form of examination is weighted 30 % in the overall assessment.

Other admission requirements:

1. Fulfilling the conditions of medical fitness is not a prerequisite for admission to education, the school does not require a medical certificate of medical fitness

2. Applicants with a disability must provide evidence of this fact in accordance with Section 3, paragraph 1, letter i) of Decree No. 422/2023 Coll., as amended. If an applicant's disability or health disadvantage is to be taken into account in the entrance examination, the application must include a report from the school counselling centre containing a statement in the form of a recommendation on the appropriate procedure for the entrance examination (Section 24 of Decree No 422/2023 Coll., as amended).

3. If the applicant has been abroad for a long period of time and has also fulfilled compulsory school attendance there for 9 years, he/she must submit the application for secondary education together with

4. report cards from the last years in the original version. Officially certified translation of these documents is not required by the school unless the headmistress decides otherwise in individual cases. If the applicant has successfully completed his/her primary education before completing the compulsory schooling period (e.g. 8 years) abroad, he/she must submit, no later than on the day of entry to the study, a document of recognition of equivalence or a document of recognition of the validity of the foreign certificate in the Czech Republic, the so-called nostrification (§ 108 of the Education Act).

5. Applicants with Czech or foreign citizenship who have received their previous education at a school outside the Czech Republic are given a Czech language entrance examination at their request in accordance with Section 20(4) of the Education Act. The knowledge of the Czech language of these applicants shall be verified by an oral interview

6. The evaluation of applicants who will not take the uniform examination in Czech language and literature pursuant to Section 20(4) of the Education Act is based on a reduced evaluation (Section 26 of Decree No.422/2023 Coll.), which does not include the result of the test in Czech language and literature of the uniform examination. Applicants are then placed in the final ranking of all applicants in the same position as in the reduced ranking of all applicants.

7. Every participant in the administrative procedure (i.e. applicant) has the right to inspect the test results and completed record sheets at the CZVV after proving his/her identity by means of electronic identification or by entering an identification code (Section 6 of Decree No.422/2023 Coll.) and to comment on them before the date of the decision on admission or non-admission to study (Section 19 of Decree No.422/2023 Coll.).

Results of the admission procedure:

1. 15 May 2025, the results of the admission procedure will be published on www.dahora.cz/vysledky-prijimaciho-rizeni (under the assigned registration number of the applicant). Enrolment slips are no longer used.

2. The decision of acceptance or non-acceptance is not sent to the applicants.

3. Applicants can see their results in all the fields they have applied for after the verification process has been completed in the system. In case the candidate does not want to enter the field of education where he/she has been admitted, he/she submits a "waiver" of his/her place. The guardian or the candidate then has the option of applying for a second or further round in other schools or fields.

4. Enrolment cards are abolished at all schools from 1 January 2024.

5. Further rounds of admissions may be announced in individual fields of study only if there are still vacancies available after the previous rounds.

6. The applicant's legal representative may file an appeal against the decision not to admit the applicant to study within three working days of the date of delivery of the decision to the regional office by submitting it to the director of Digital Academy - Obchodní akademie, s. r. o. Pursuant to Section 82, paragraph 2 of Act No. 500/2004 Coll., the Administrative Code, as amended, the appeal must contain information about the decision against which it is directed, the extent to which it is contested and the grounds for the contradiction with legal regulations or the incorrectness of the decision or the procedure that preceded it.

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