Scholarships

Kotronis Schools do not make any discrimination by race, religion, colour, sex, gender, nationality, age or any special ability in the admission procedures of the scholarship programme they offer.

Students of both the Kotronis Schools and other public or private schools are eligible to participate in the Scholarship Program. Scholarship candidates must be of good conduct.

Scholarships are awarded based on academic criteria as detailed below:

Full Scholarships (100%)

• Academic Criteria: up to 3 courses of study(up to 2 in junior high school / up to 1 in senior high school) with the highest scores in the written selection test respectively for each school level.
• Economic criteria: regardless of the economic criteria.

Partial Scholarships (50%)

• Academic Criteria: up to 3 courses of study(up to 2 in Junior High School / up to 1 in Senior High School) with the next highest scores in the written selection test respectively for each school level.

• Economic criteria: regardless of the economic criteria.

Kotronis Schools Scholarship Fund Scholarships

• Academic Criteria: 1 one-year course of study for 2nd or 3rd grade public high school students who demonstrate high academic achievement and are highly motivated to further enhance their learning. The award of the above scholarship is provided after an evaluative assessment of the applicants’ demonstrated excellent academic performance in previous grades and after a personal interview that assesses their good character, ethics and aspirations for their academic future.

• Economic criteria: regardless of the economic criteria.

All applications and the relevant supporting documents are examined by a specially appointed Committee which is set up for this purpose and in which the Directors of High School and teachers from both levels of the Kotronis Schools participate.

The written exams for the scholarship candidates will be held at the premises of the Junior High School of the Modern Kotronis Schools on Saturday, May 20, 2023 from 10:00 to 14:00, with an arrival time of 9:30, observing all the necessary protective measures to ensure the health of the participants.

On the day of the competition, candidates must bring their identity card, passport or identity document (within 6 months).

Scholarships are awarded following written exams in Modern Greek Language and Mathematics, which are held in May or June of each school year.

The preparation, organization and conduct of the competition for the Scholarship, the selection of the topics and the evaluation of the students’ papers are the responsibility of the Principals of the Junior High School and the Senior High School. For this purpose the following are formed:

1. Committee for the administration of the examinations and editing/selection of subjects for the test by teachers of the Junior High School and the Senior High School of the Schools.
2. Committee for the evaluation and grading of written essays consisting of Senior High School teachers and external collaborators – teachers.

The above committees are responsible for the establishment of the evaluation list per course and the final evaluation list, as well as the announcement of the scholarship recipients.
In particular concerning the conduct of the competitive examination:

• The topics of the competition are original and assess the knowledge and skills that each student has acquired at the respective age level, while at the same time exploring the potential for academic excellence.
• The names and other details of the students on the examination sheets are covered upon handing in the subjects and under the responsibility of the class supervisors.
• Written essays are graded from 0 to 100 points per subject, with a maximum of 100 points. Each course is graded by two evaluators (a school teacher and an external collaborator – teacher). The average score of the two evaluators is the final grade of the course.
• The average of the sum of both subjects is the final grade of the candidate for the scholarship application.
• Prerequisite for the award of a full scholarship is the performance of more than 90% on average.
• For the award of a partial scholarship, the prerequisite is the performance of more than 80% on average.
• In case of a tied score, a draw is made between the tied candidates before the Examinations Committee and the parents and guardians involved.
• Recipients of the scholarship may be the candidates who are ranked in the first positions in the ranking of the competition per school level ( Junior High School – Senior High School).
• In case one of the successful candidates of the first four positions does not accept the scholarship offered, no position will be filled by runner-up candidates.
• The final ranking list of candidates for the scholarships is posted on the school’s website, where applicants can find out their order of success. For the sake of personal data protection, the final ranking list does not include the names of the candidates but the personal code of the candidate, which is issued by the school at the beginning of the exams.

Scholarship exam syllabus for the school year 2023-24 1st Junior High School grade

Modern Greek Language

Students will be tested in the comprehension of written texts of various textual genres and in the production of discourse with a focus on the sections included in all three volumes of the textbook “Language, Sixth Primary School” as well as in testing their ability to recognise the function of the morphosyntactic structures (Grammar, Syntax, Vocabulary) included in the textbook “Grammar, Fifth and Sixth Primary School”.

Excercises:

Older Excercises:  2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022 2022-2023.

Mathematics

Students will be tested in understanding and solving mathematical problems with simple arithmetic operations, formulating reasons and mathematical reasoning.

Exam material, from the textbook of the sixth primary school:

• up to and including section 44, except sections 2,9,10,18,25,38,39.
• sections 61, 62, 63 and 64.

Excercises:

Older Excercises: 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023

Scholarship exam material for school year 2023-24 1st grade Senior High School

Modern Greek Language

Students will be tested on the comprehension of written texts of various genres and content, on the production of written language and on the ability to recognise the function of the morphosyntactic structures (Grammar, Syntax, Vocabulary) included in the first six units of the 3rd grade of senior high school textbook.

Excercises:

Older Excercises: 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023.

Mathematics

Exam material: From the textbook of the third grade of junior high school

Algebra:

• Chapter 1: 1.1 (without paragraph “A. The real numbers and their operations”), 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (without sub-paragraph “e) difference of squared numbers- sum of squared numbers”), 1.6 (without sub-paragraphs “d) difference – sum of squared numbers” and “f) factorisation of a trionym of the form x2+(a+b)x+ab”), 1.8, 1.9, 1.10.

• Chapter 2: 2.1, 2.2, 2.5 without paragraph “A. Arrangement of real numbers”.

Geometry:

• Chapter 1: 1.1, 1.2,1.3, 5B.

Excercises:

Older Excercises: 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023.