From November 29, 2024 to December 20, 2024, the time period for submitting an application-declaration to participate in this year’s National Examinations, for those who wish to participate in them from the General and Vocational High Schools (GEL and EPAL), for admission to the tertiary education.

As informed by the Ministry of Education, the above deadline is exclusive.

Candidates (students or graduates) can obtain the application – declaration that corresponds to their case, either online or from their high school. Then, they should complete the application – declaration according to the instructions on the form and come to their high school, for its final electronic submission.

On the official website of the Ministry of Education, www.minedu.gov.gr, under the link “EXAMS”, the appropriate application-declaration models and the relevant circulars that fully describe the procedure and the detailed supporting documents for each category of candidate (GEL or EPAL) are posted , student or graduate).

In the same deadline (from Friday 29-11-2024 to Friday 20-12-2024), candidates interested in the 5 Music Departments with the special admission procedure (i.e. the Departments of Music Studies of EKPA, AUTH, Ionian University , of the University of Ioannina as well as the Department of Music Science and Art of the University of Macedonia), in addition to the application-declaration for the nationwide exams, they should also submit a relevant application-declaration for the 5 Music Departments.

Additional information on the Panhellenic 2025

The Ministry of Education, with a relevant announcement, informed about the National Examinations 2025 and the following:

1. Applicants interested in Military Academies, Police Academies, Fire Academy Academies, Coast Guard Academies and Merchant Marine Academy Academies must additionally apply directly to the Army, Police, Fire, port or in the merchant navy in a period of time that will be specified in the notices that will be issued by the competent ministries and to are deemed competent in the preliminary examinations, which are planned for the period March-April 2025. The above notices will be made available by the recruiting offices, the police stations, the fire brigade and the port police respectively, at a time to be determined by the co-competent ministries.

2. Those candidates who are interested in the TEFAAs and will participate in the national exams this year, must declare their desire for the TEFAAs, so that they can also participate in the practical tests (medical examination and competitions).

3. Candidates for 10% of the places (without a new examination) can only be those who were examined nationwide in 2023 or 2024 (with the daily GEL or with the daily EPAL). Those who wish to be candidates for 10% of the seats, will now not submit the application-declaration, but a direct computerized report. If they wish to enter the army, police, fire brigade, coast guard, AEN, they submit a relevant application to the relevant ministry and participate in the preliminary exams (March-April 2025).

Candidates for the 10% with the last exam in 2023, will claim their admission with the condition of EBE, as it was formulated in the nationwide exams of 2023. Candidates for the 10% with the last exam in 2024, will claim their admission with the condition of the EBE, as it was formed in the nationwide exams of 2024.

4. Those candidates, suffering from serious illnesses, who do not wish to participate in the nationwide exams, do not submit the application-declaration now. We remind you that the candidates of this special category (who have already been certified or will be certified by the special seven-member hospitals), may directly submit a separate computerized form for 5% of the admission positions based on the grade of their high school diploma on dates to be announced later. However, if any of the candidates with serious illnesses wishes to participate in the nationwide exams, they must submit the present application-declaration in order to be able to participate normally in the nationwide exams as well.