It’s no secret that, in the United States, to get into a good college or university, students must do well on standardized tests such as the SATs or Regents—and the same goes for Israel. High school students who want to enlist in the army or pursue higher education must earn their bagrut certificate, which proves they successfully passed their matriculation exams.
“It’s a complex set of tests that students have to study incredibly hard for, and they need tremendous support to achieve that success,” Liz Klibanoff, AMIT’s director of financial resource development, told Nachum Segal, host of “JM in the AM.” “And it’s vital to give that to them.”
The national average of Israelis passing the matriculation exams is 70%, but as Liz explained, “AMIT sets the standard even higher, by having 85% of our kids pass the bagrut—something that we are really proud of and that we devote incredible resources to, to make sure it happens.”
AMIT is also devoting great resources to students’ quality bagrut—level 4 and 5, which is the highest. “That score not only enables our students to get into the army, but at the highest levels of the army, and opens up different opportunities to study at the university. It’s really the game-changer for Israeli kids in terms of furthering their next step in Israeli society.”
Watch the full video to see Liz, on a special Yom Yerushalayim broadcast of “JM in the AM,” explain the impact AMIT is having on Israel’s educational landscape:
